As writers, we are always being told to write about what you know. Use experiences both good and bad. Use things you’ve seen on TV, in the street, in your mind’s eye. Use things you’ve felt. Use things you’ve heard people say, both in context and out. Every writing group I have been to, every writing magazine I have read, every writer I have spoken with, they have all, at some point, said essentially the same thing to me – write from the heart, about your own personal experience. It may be about something really deep, intense and personal, you don’t know if there is a market for it, but you have got to get this thing right out from inside you.
I wanted to write. I wanted to get my voice heard. I was looking for a brand new paying market. I felt I had paid my dues long enough in the doing-freereviews market.