The traditional advice for aspiring novelists is to write about what you know. For most of my career I've done pretty much the opposite. I make my living writing novels about a forensic anthropologist - someone who can glean information from decomposition and the bones of the dead - despite the fact that I'm not an expert myself. My own scientific career came to a premature end when I failed A level biology and chemistry, forcing a hurried switch to English literature instead of the biochemistry degree I'd planned.
Writing about what you don't know
15 April 2019
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