Today in a fit of boredom, and sudden need for romance I found myself watching “Becoming Jane,” with Anne Hathaway and the ever attractive James McAvoy. There was one part in the movie that really stuck out the most to me, and I found myself thinking it over. Jane and Tom return to his uncle’s estate in an attempt to show him how eligible she was. While they are there, they visit the authoress, Ann Radcliffe, who is known for some of her novels. The beginning of the conversation between Jane and Ann caught my attention:
“You live so quietly and yet your novels are filled with romance; danger; terror.”-Jane
“Everything my life is not.”-Ann
How many authors’ write stories and novels of things they do not know, or don’t quite understand? Hasn’t it always been said that one should write of what they know? Yet many do not write as such. Maybe the best writing is not writing what one may know, but of the things they want to know. Writing about adventures, terror and danger one may never come across, and the heart pounding passion one only wishes they could feel. Is that what sells books? Reading about the life of another; to maybe get a small bit of what they’re feeling? Taking in everything author and reader alike do not know or understand.
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