Comments on: Write What You Know…Absolutely Nothing About https://booksbywomen.org/write-what-you-know-absolutely-nothing-about/ Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:11:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Amy Poeppel https://booksbywomen.org/write-what-you-know-absolutely-nothing-about/#comment-57866 Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:11:46 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=30056#comment-57866 In reply to Lisa A Braxton.

Hi Lisa!! So happy to hear from you! And good luck with your 19th C novel. I’m sure you will do gobs of research and will pull it off brilliantly! And yes, people are so generous when you ask for their expertise. Keep me posted!!! xoxo

]]> By: Lisa A Braxton https://booksbywomen.org/write-what-you-know-absolutely-nothing-about/#comment-57862 Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:11:21 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=30056#comment-57862 I meant to say, “I’m now pretty confident…

]]> By: Lisa Braxton https://booksbywomen.org/write-what-you-know-absolutely-nothing-about/#comment-57861 Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:09:52 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=30056#comment-57861 I really enjoyed this article, Amy. Right now I’m working on my second novel. It’s historical fiction taking place in the mid 1800s. I keep wondering if I’ll be able to find an expert who can explain to me how people went about their lives at that time in New England, i.e, how they dressed, heated their homes, got fresh water, what they did for recreation, etcetera. From what you’ve written here, I’m not pretty confident I’ll find people to help me with technical accuracy.

]]> By: Amy Poeppel https://booksbywomen.org/write-what-you-know-absolutely-nothing-about/#comment-56816 Fri, 03 Jul 2020 22:45:39 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=30056#comment-56816 In reply to Irene Wittig.

Thank you Irene! I may take you up on that 🙂

]]> By: Irene Wittig https://booksbywomen.org/write-what-you-know-absolutely-nothing-about/#comment-56637 Wed, 01 Jul 2020 13:04:10 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=30056#comment-56637 I loved this article and your description of how your mind wanders while listening to classical music. I grew up with classical music and my mind wandered the same way, though often it made me think of other places.
I also appreciated how writing about one thing would lead to writing about something you knew nothing about before.
I’d love to chat about ceramics. I spent 20 years doing it and even wrote a how-to book about it (The Clay Canvas. Creative painting on Functional Ceramics) so do feel free to email me.
Happy to see my novel is in such good company this month.

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