Start At B - Announcing 'Penny Keeps the Keys and Other Stories'
As a writer, there are some bits of advice you get so often you can sort of stop listening before the sentence is over. Well - no. You get advice so often you can't help stopping listening. "Write what you know" is a good one, which I've long suspected is the battle cry of the Anti Science Fiction Battalion. "Just write every day" is another, and I used to be a huge believer in it until I found my whole life upended and discovered that it's the kind of rule that's great while it works - but instantly makes me feel rotten when I fail to meet it. And even though part of my brain seems wired to treat writing femdom and denial as a kind of delightful self-care, I've never managed to write every day, particularly not in recent months! But not all advice to writers is bad, and honestly I think a lot of advice to writers - like books themselves - can be fantastic at the right time, and for the right audience. ("Write what you know," for in...