Posts Tagged ‘novelist research’
What Really Goes Into a Novel–Researching for Fun and Profit
Sometimes I can’t believe my own good luck. I have a built-in excuse to do the strangest things without one smidgen of guilt. Yesterday, for instance, in the middle of writing a chapter that does NOT want to be written, I got the urge to bake a pie. So I did. Without feeling the least…
Read MoreAnd You Thought Research was Dull?
So, do you really believe novelists just make stuff up? After all, they call this fiction. We don’t know how it’s really done, so we fudge? Well, that would be the easy way out, but truth is, novelists HATE those letters you write us that point out Ash Wednesday and Easter do NOT occur…
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