“If you have other things in your life—family, friends, good productive day work—these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.”

– David Brin

Writers are often pictured hunched away over their desks in remote attic apartments, but the truth is that writers have to mingle with other people and engage in other pursuits, if their writing is going to be truly interesting. We draw on our own experiences to create stories; every moment of ordinary life provides the raw material!