Improbable Press Blog — Stella Elisei
Nothing Human is Alien to Me (Terence Knew)
By Stella Elisei "Write what you know" is a duty... …if you are writing an article for a peer-reviewed journal. Do not unbridle your imagination then. But if you're writing for entertainment, I'll tell you something I know. "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto." That's perhaps the most famous quote by the Latin playwright Terence. "I'm human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." Personally, I'll add that nothing extraterrestrial or mythological is alien to me, either. But that's just my taste for speculative fiction. If you're a writer...figuring out how other people might feel and...