>>7334
>The hidden truth about "write what you know" is that, you're really good at writing about your own experiences, potentially good at writing about vicarious experiences ... and we can all tell when you're guessing and/or just sympathizing.

and what happens if those feelings translated on the story are imprecise or pretended? What happens if those emotions are heavily exaggerated? What makes you imply exactly that what the parts in which the reader emphasizes with the writer are correct? In this case, the artist is writing those descriptions are if they were personal, which make you believe that he is writing a diary and he is being honest to himself in order to not hurt his public image.

I am simply saying that even while writing about personal matters in a creative work, the writer/artist can shape or twist them with a lot of room for confusion and making harder at finding any sympathy that actually matches with said person (or the artist could do the whole thing for mocking at this practice).Furthermore, in a more twisted manner, the writer might not express his inner thoughts and instead, he could work as the messenger of other people minds/references/voices and you mistake the whole work as if it were his own mind.

The reader is completely at the mercy of what the writer wants to transmit but you don´t even know to what degree and therefore, I claim that interpreting the work just from personal assumptions, while they could turn out to be correct and say a lot at understanding said person, it could lead to a lot of misunderstandings (especially if said fans interact with him and are active on social media).

This might sound hyperbolic but, even though emotions are universal, your statement could be translated as: "In order to write about unicorns, I must feel and experience the life of a unicorn beforehand"

or even with music where interpretations are left too open and ambiguous for the listener to imply at first glance:

>musicians interact with their music differently.
well and that´s implying that said artists even compose their on music (it tends to happen with pop music but don´t be surprised if you find out that one member of the band composes all the songs or even an outsider member that does the job for them instead)
>But I still posit that you can't perform angry music if you've never been angry enough to justify the music and how angry it is.
is it a requirement though? I certainly disagree with that statement.