60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey: Do You Write What You Know or What You Know About?

2025-04-02

Hello to you listening in Brockville, Ontario, Canada!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.Question: What is the difference between knowing something and knowing about something?The distinction is important because people often write what they know about based on what social media tells us whether that’s politics, sports, entertainment, social justice, and so on. Social media also tells us h...

Hello to you listening in Brockville, Ontario, Canada!

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.

Question: What is the difference between knowing something and knowing about something?

The distinction is important because people often write what they know about based on what social media tells us whether that’s politics, sports, entertainment, social justice, and so on. Social media also tells us how come what we know about is important to us. As a result what we know about often doesn’t matter that much. The disconnect shows up in our writing, as if maybe AI generated it.

What we know comes from lived experience. What we know is a clue to what matters to us. For example, I might know about the grinding defeat of poverty; but I know from lived experience the defeat of betrayal.

When we write a heartfelt story about something that we know we are pulling on imagination, sensations, memories, feelings, and emotions. Those universal story elements are shared by every other human being. When we write from that place of knowing we more easily connect with, engage and inspire our readers and listeners to action.

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