To write objectively about anything you need distance, you need to be objective. I'm not saying you need to move away from home to write well, but it helps to put distance between you and what you are writing about. That's kind of what I had in mind when I came here. You need to see everything from somewhere new, find out if your ideas had more to do with you reacting to your original circumstances than with truth. That's what we do, what other reason is there. We see dead people.

A new environment provides things to compare your old world to, it can give you adventures that were just not possible before. Things that I have been exposed to in SC just weren't possible on a small island.

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