A television comedy-drama mini-series – by Bob Denton
In writing Dream Team, I did know what I was writing about. I have been active in both trade and public event organisation with the Property Business Show, Top PA, LIVE! the Consumer Electronics Show, the Premier Fashion events and subsequently a number of smaller heavily-targeted IT events such as MacExpo (UK, Germany and Netherlands), Adobe Live, Nikon Live, the Quark 7 Launch/Roadshow across Europe…
Most of the situations encountered in DREAM TEAM are based upon actual incidents. However, the screenplay does not begin to scratch the surface of my first-hand experience in exhibition organising.
But there is not universal agreement:
 | Mark Twain said: Write what you know. |
 | P D James agreed: You absolutely should write about what you know. There are all sorts of small things that you should store up and use, nothing is lost to a writer … All experience, whether it is painful or whether it is happy is somehow stored up and sooner or later it’s used. |
 | Kazuo Ishiguro argued: ‘Write about what you know’ is the most stupid thing I’ve heard. It encourages people to write a dull autobiography. It’s the reverse of firing the imagination and the potential of writers. |
 | Dan Brown suggested instead: You should write something that you need to go and learn about. |
 | Lee Child stated: I think [write what you know] is very bad advice. Very few people know enough to make an exciting story, and very few people can escape the clotted and overcrowded prose that usually results. |
 | Ken Kesey agreed: One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. |
As always, you can find every shade of opinion, on any subject!
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