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Write What You Know: A Practical Guide to Write Your Best Fiction
Everything You Need to Write Your Book Is Yours
The classic writing advice, "Write What You Know," is a guiding principle for many fiction writers. It encourages authors to draw from their personal experiences, emotions, and insights to create authentic and powerful narratives. This guide explores how to harness your knowledge while balancing imagination and craft to write your best fiction.
Drawing from Life Experiences: The Heart of Authentic Storytelling
Emotional Depth: The Five Senses
The Spectrum of Human Experience: Capturing the Depths of Emotion in Fiction
The Blurred Line: Reality vs. Imagination
Crafting Strong Fiction: Essential Writing Techniques
Why wait? Take your writing to the next level with Write What You Know.
The classic writing advice, "Write What You Know," is a guiding principle for many fiction writers. It encourages authors to draw from their personal experiences, emotions, and insights to create authentic and powerful narratives. This guide explores how to harness your knowledge while balancing imagination and craft to write your best fiction.
Drawing from Life Experiences: The Heart of Authentic Storytelling
Emotional Depth: The Five Senses
The Spectrum of Human Experience: Capturing the Depths of Emotion in Fiction
The Blurred Line: Reality vs. Imagination
Crafting Strong Fiction: Essential Writing Techniques
Why wait? Take your writing to the next level with Write What You Know.
36 pages, ebook
Published April 8, 2025
3 people want to read
About the author
Steve Rush
10 books229 followersSteve’s book Kill Your Characters; Crime Scene Tips for Writers was named finalist in the 2023 Silver Falchion Award for Best Nonfiction and Honorable Mention in the 2023 Readers’ Favorite Awards.
Steve won joint first prize in the 2020 Chillzee KiMo T-E-N Contest and longlisted in the 2022 Page Turner Awards. 2022 Public Safety Writing Association Writing Competition first and third place award for two unpublished manuscripts, and first-place tie for Kill Your Characters.
Steve's experience includes tenure as homicide detective and chief forensic investigator for a national consulting firm. He was once hailed as “The best forensic investigator in the United States” by the late Joseph L. Burton, M.D, under whom he mastered his skills, and investigated many deaths alongside Dr. Jan Garavaglia of Dr. G: Medical Examiner fame. Steve has investigated 900+ death scenes and taught classes related to death investigation. His specialties include injury causation, blood spatter analysis, occupant kinematics, and recovery of human skeletal remains.
He lives in Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, Sharon.
Steve won joint first prize in the 2020 Chillzee KiMo T-E-N Contest and longlisted in the 2022 Page Turner Awards. 2022 Public Safety Writing Association Writing Competition first and third place award for two unpublished manuscripts, and first-place tie for Kill Your Characters.
Steve's experience includes tenure as homicide detective and chief forensic investigator for a national consulting firm. He was once hailed as “The best forensic investigator in the United States” by the late Joseph L. Burton, M.D, under whom he mastered his skills, and investigated many deaths alongside Dr. Jan Garavaglia of Dr. G: Medical Examiner fame. Steve has investigated 900+ death scenes and taught classes related to death investigation. His specialties include injury causation, blood spatter analysis, occupant kinematics, and recovery of human skeletal remains.
He lives in Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, Sharon.
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