CE has said to me, on multiple occasions, that you can't write a fiction book about something, unless you live in the relevant country, or lived through the appropriate time period, or both. For example, based on what people on CE have said, I'm not qualified to write a book set mostly or entirely in America, because I've never been to America, despite having spent most of my life watching American TV, American films, listening to American music, and reading American books...to say nothing of speaking to American online for a number of years. Another example would be if I wanted to write about the Guy Fawkes trying to blow up Parliament. I'm British, but since I wasn't alive 400 years ago, and didn't live through that event, and didn't live through the culture of the time and place, I'm not able to write a book on the subject.
Do you agree or disagree with what people have said, that I've just laid out? If so, why?
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