by Tony Kushner from the Blog – “Write What you Know.”

“Your writing should reveal things about yourself you didn’t know before you put your pen to paper (or your hands to the keyboard). Rather than just recycle popular themes, dig deeper into the subject and find that unknown tension or truth that will surprise both you and your audience.

Part of the exciting thing about being a writer in any medium is that if you start to dig around in there and use words and the muscular activity of writing, you discover things inside of yourself, people inside of yourself, knowledge inside of yourself that you didn’t know you had.

The best writing is usually a journey into the unknown for both the author and the audience. No one is conscious enough of their own interior to know what choices they may or may not make before they begin to write. This discovery process, it turns out, can also be therapeutic for the writer.”