30 Day Fandom Meme Day 26

[leethet]

Day 26 – What is the oddest (or funniest) thing you've had to research for a fic?
Nothing funny or odd; the closest to “odd” (as in out of my own “ordinary”) might’ve been the geographical research I did for “Rainbow” and “Half Truths” or the laser research for “Anything.”

Comments

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Do you do your research ahead of time, or after you've started writing?

[leethet.livejournal.com]

Generally what happens is I've kind of started the story and as the plot takes shape in my mind (as with Rainbow or Anything) I realize I need to know more to make certain scenes realistic. So I do the research, to an extent, while I'm writing, if not while writing those precise scenes. It saves time to know specifically what you need - as with researching Kiev for Half Truths; there were particular areas I needed to know about to advance the story, so I focused on those.

Mind you, I can't say how persuasive my research was, but it was fun to do, and to try to be accurate.