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Why personal experience feels insufficient for fiction

I read somewhere that you should write what you know but everything I know feels too small and boring compared to the books I love

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The familiarity of one's own life can obscure the extraordinary potential that lies within ordinary experience.

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