Write Your Real

I like to think that writing is more than passive aggressive action, or an expression of the God Complex, or a receptacle for lived experiences, as in the dreaded advice, ‘Write What You Know.’ Writing is permission. Permission to indulge in the thoughts, instincts, and selves that you won’t show in public: the stickler and the harlequin, the maiden and the monster, the real that bends backward into the unreal. 

Your fictions may not exist in the ‘real world,’ but they’re real in the way that matters.

Don’t write what you know. Write your real.

– K. P. F. Holmes