Aspiring novelists should be taught that the old adage, Write about what you know, isnt limited to what you have personally experienced. Vicarious experience is also a great part of what you know. Read a lot of history and it becomes part of your store of knowledge, part of what youre prepared to write about. The same goes for stories and memories that other people share with you.

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James Carlos Blake was a 20th-century American writer. James Carlos Blake was an American novelist as well as a writer of novellas, short stories, and essays. His work has received extensive critical favor and several notable awards. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Experience — Learning through living, doing, and facing the world
  • History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation

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