"write what you know"

I think that everyone knows alot of various things. We all learn things based on our own personal experiences, some things are learned through reading and some through hands on activities. Although i have only had 17 years of experinces, the amount of things i have experienced and seen are incredible. These things become comforts in which my own writting can fall back on. For example travelling, as a child I went all over Ontario. this have now allowed me to have a comfort in writting about the nature of the north, the difference in the economies as well as different personalities. Being shown all these different things gives you a great idea on how to both judge and create characters. Everywhere I look i am able to see different types of people, this becomes a fantastic thing when i can incorporate personality traits i have witnessed with the personal of my fictional characters. I have worked in numerous places and been in far more akward situations that i would ever dream of being in. But all the information i take of situations can lead to a genre of a story. The genre's i am most comfortable writing are romance, children, or mystery. I think that this may be due to the fact that i am interested in these topics. As well as that i am interseted in reading and talking about these style of genres.

There are still many more genres, characters, settings, issues, topics, and experiences that i would really enjoy researching to be able to write about them. The things i really would be interested in researching so i could potentially one day write about would be different countries. I would love to one day be able to write a story about the way people in England, Ireland or even Africa live. I would even be interested in travelling to these places so that i could get an idea of what types of charcters they may be. Many people in Canada are welcoming and i've always wondered would someone in Ireland have these same mannerisms. I think that the potenial for differences in amazing and I really would enjoy furthuring my knowledge on this. Another amazing possability for me would be leaning about different world issues that I could use to write about. I have never been big on following world issues but i always thought that they would put an interesting spin on my own personal writings. I think that if the struggles of the economy were incorporated in my stories that theywould almost have more life.

There always will be specific topics i should avoid when writing. I suppose that everyone has limitations, the hard part is noticing your limitations. Personally i feel that some of my largest limits are characters. Although i have and met so many people in my life it is very hard to create a character with out a good sense of judgement. I would never want to creat a character that someone else would read about and feel offended. My second limitation is setting. Creating a setting becomes difficult when you have not seen alot of places. Creating a setting involves mental imaging, and i hope that i never write about a place and the people who live there become angered due to my one sided view.