Janice Law blog post on writing of 'Fires of London'
Janice Law has nice post up at a blog run by the editor of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, about the process of writing her latest book, Fires of London.
One of the cliches of the writing business, and standard advice for young writers, is write what you know. This is simply good sense, ignorance not being bliss in the writing game. The problem is that writing what you know is often construed too narrowly. If we only wrote what we knew, there would be a lot fewer spy novels and torrid romances. Many a cowboy would never leave the corral, and fairy princesses and Middle-earth types would be thin on the ground...
