Writing Excuses 9.5: Hijacking the Knowledge You Already Have, with Mette Ivie Harrison

Writing Excuses

Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler

Fiction, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2014

⏱️ 21 minutes

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What are those things you already know, but which you might not be using in your writing? How do you identify those things and put them to work for you? Mette Ivie Harrison joins us for a discussion of how you might "hijack" (okay, "repurpose") the knowledge you already have in order to make you a better writer. We hear a lot about the 10,000 hours of practice required to gain expertise in a given domain. It's possible that you've already spent some of those 10,000 hours in activities that you didn't realize were related.

Mette leads with her love of history. Mary directs us a bit with a metaphor from Jim Henson. Brandon talks about what is, by any other name, fanfic, and Howard talks about his degree in music composition. We also talk about how we leverage the knowledge we're acquiring in other activities to flesh out the things we're writing -- in effect, letting that stuff serve as research without it being part of the actual research we do.

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0:00.0	This year my family will be having our 67th annual Christmas Eve dinner.
0:04.8	It's a menu passed down from my grandmother through my mom to me.
0:08.8	The entire family shows up.
0:11.8	I'm talking fourth cousins once removed and this is not an
0:15.1	exaggeration which means that during the lead up I don't have time to menu plan or
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1:01.4	a meal.
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