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Happy Friday the 13th, everyone! So far there are two things that I've learned from researching my novel this year: 1) Research may completely turn your ideas for a story upside down, and 2) research can lead to more research. For example, I wanted my story to be a tale of a plucky young and single Marie Curie saving the world after an accidental atomic explosion at her laboratory just prior to WWI. Problem: Marie Curie was 47 years old with two children at the start of WWI. Hmmm...that changes things a bit. Also, as far as research leading to more research, let's say you start by researching foreign policy in France around 1909. Well, then you come upon the Franco-German Accord and have to research that, but then you read about Jules Cambon and maybe you have to research him too...you see my point. Deciding what is important to my book and what will not be important in my book is difficult to impossible at present, so deciding what is important to research and what is not, is also impossible. I guess that is why they say that the research that is obvious in a novel is only the tip of the iceberg. So I've still got a long way to go... Keep Writing and Edit On.
I Write, I Edit, I Write Again. Witness! We're Making Better Words, All of Them, Better Words. I Write to Burn Off the Crazy.
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