Writing the familiar

Many many writers want to experience things so that they can write, Writing however is not for some foreign correspondance, it is not going to meet with the Lost Generation, or even boldly going where no man has gone before. It may be, but most of us are plain ordinary people and stories and novels about those plain ordinary people are the best understood and best fitted to suit. Write about what you know. I have written five books, a children's book about cows, a book about living a lifetime dealing with manipulators and controllers and finally becoming oneself and living one's life for oneself, a book about a shepherd boy during the time of Christ, a book about New Orleans and finally a book of poetry. All of these I have experienced, either through vet school or scripture studies, or living in New Orleans for over 30 years. I do not believe in what-ifs except when it comes to reading or writing fiction novels. It is fun to speculate but realize that speculation is not truth not always. So write what is in your heart, write what you know. Most importantly, write!!