I used to wonder if it would get weird when I started getting significantly older than my characters. Especially when it comes to the Firmament series. Because the eighteen books, while they take place over a period of maybe five to six years, will probably take pretty close to eighteen years for me to get written and published. Needless to…
Anyone who’s ever turned their hand to writing knows this this adage, as well as most who haven’t. “Write what you know.” There are many great writers who have followed this advice. Charles Dickens, for instance. Nearly all of his stories had autobiographical elements, and most of them took place in the nineteenth century London where he lived out his…