Comments on: Day 4: 90 Day Writing Challenge

By: christiney

christiney — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 00:17:00 +0000

Haha I love how we both get tired around the same time T^T
It’s a good thing that you’re not extremely easily discouraged!

By: Eve Jacob

Eve Jacob — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:37:00 +0000

There is definitely a fine, fine line between “getting the information you need to tell a credible story” and “researching things to death” and I, too, am terrible at identifying it.

You’re absolutely right that, as a work of fiction, many of these details are completely up to me! I don’t have to verify EVERYTHING…I just have to know enough to make the story work. The rest is up for interpretation, seeing as we’re making up these worlds as we go!

But alas, research is kind of fun, and I’m a learning junkie, so sometimes, it’s just easier to keep clicking the next link than it is to bear down and write the book!

By: Steve A.

Steve A. — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:52:00 +0000

Compulsive research. I tend to do that too. You find the answer to one question, but then that leads to another question, which leads to another, and so on. Accuracy is great, but eventually, in my work, at least, there comes a point where you need to say, this is a work of fiction. It’s my story, my world, and I say things happen this way, whether it’s 100% accurate in the real world or not.

Unfortunately, I have no idea where that point actually is.