Author Rukhsanakha Kahn gave a brief talk about her picture book, The Big Red Lollipop. She took a story from her childhood, thought about it for ten years, then wrote the story in 15 minutes.
She admonished her audience to glean stories from childhood. We know them so well. It makes me think of two conflicting cliches about writing: Write what you know and write what you don't know.
The first certainly makes sense.
As does the second-what we don't know but want to know about will be just as compelling as we are driven to research and create.
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