by Henry McLaughlin @RiverbendSagas
Many of us have heard the statement,
“Write what you know” so often it has become a cliché.
It intimidated me the first
time I heard. Write what I know? I don’t know all that much that would make a
good story. To me, my life was the opposite of Hitchcock’s definition of a movie:
life with the dull parts taken out. Mine had all the dull parts left in.
