Every writer has heard the adage “write what you know” at least a dozen times. What does it even mean? As writers, especially of fiction, we constantly write what we don’t know. This month, we explore how to navigate the balance between imagination and reality.

In this extended version of our last episode, Ley Esses and Leigh Hull dive deeper into how to write death via a range of weaponry, and what happens to a body as it dies.

First aired October 19, 2019.