what you don't know about what you do know

June 10, 2009 1 Comment

Why former editor William Rosen chose the 6th century as the subject of his first book :

“The best writerly advice I ever heard (and with which I bored dozens of authors back when I was an editor) is not to write what you know, but to write what you don’t know about what you do know. When I started on this project, I knew a fair bit about European and Mediterranean history, but not much about Late antiquity.”

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One Response to what you don't know about what you do know

  1. The_Chef says:
    June 13, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    Hey man, long time reader and fellow Libertarian/Minarchist/AnCap blogger here.

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    Since Bureaucrash Social has been overrun by NeoCons, Pete Eyre and a bunch of the other true libertarians have founded FR33 Agents.

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    Reply

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