: Re: Writing about a topic which you don't have personal experience in I would like to make it very clear that I'm very young (just graduated to a teen) and only an amateur writer. I have recently

Research is your friend. Most of the (fiction) books that I enjoyed the most show how thoroughly researched they are.

On virtually every topic you can find first-person accounts describing the experience. Read them, compare them, distill the essence from them. And yes, this includes death experiences, look for people who were revived after being almost dead.

A lot of writers keep extensive notes and libraries on virtually every topic imaginable. I'm writing a short story placed in WW2 right now, something I haven't experienced, and I've made extensive use of online resources as well as my library including a 2000 page volume on WW2 that I bought and read two decades ago. The war was long before my time, but I can fill my story with details up to the type of wood used in the dining room of that passenger ship my characters are taking at one point, and I can write about the experiences and thoughts of my characters in this time by drawing the driving thoughts from the many eye-witness accounts available.

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: Does my response fit into the scope of the question or is it too abstract? I'm applying to get into Brandon Sanderson's writing class this coming winter semester. As such, I've begun to fill

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: Point of view switching I want to write a story mainly in third person, occasionally switching to first person. How would I do that most effectively?

: I enjoy characters who have interesting lives, or quiet ones. Any well drawn three dimensional character should be someone one can relate to, whether you have anything in common with that character

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