Dancing Around the Four Sides

“‘Write what you know’ will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect. That is the only way out of the dead end of the Serious Novel which so many ambitious people want to write and no one on earth wants to read.”

~ Gore Vidal


Because "write what you know" has stopped some people from writing. You say "write what you know!" and folks will say "but I don't know anything!" and thus they never try. And a voice that might have been great, might have soared, might have set fire to generations, is never heard. Writing what you know can be a good thing, but it isn't the only thing.

Hot again. Will be hot for the next few days, but still must run some errands today.

In other news: French Olympics swimmer's silent tribute with a tattoo.