The Robin Rice - So You Want to Write a Book

In this entry in author Robin Rice's So You Want to Write a Book series, she gives tips on how to create a character who will really interest you and get your creative juices flowing. I'd never heard of the "mashup" concept before, so I was interested to find a new way to come up with characters, since my favorite part of writing has, and always will be, creating characters who'll stick with me the rest of my life. One point she made in the video struck me like like lightning, and that was when she mentioned that writing ONLY about something you know, instead of incorporating things you don't know very much about, is boring. It seems obvious to me now, but I'd never thought of it like that before. It's so true, so simple. It was actually a bit like an epiphany for me, which is not something I was expecting to experience when I clicked on this video!