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men:
If one suddenly realises that one's doing Bujold-style plotting ("What's the worst thing I can do to these characters that they'll survive") for one's current WIP, the serious drawback is that one has to do the research about the obvious worst thing that one will do.
This is terribly depressing.
de:
There is something terribly satisfying about going and peering at old news links and coming across a remarkably homophobic screed with an ad box at the bottom that reads:
I shall be resolutely cheered by the delightful juxtaposition of the aforementioned other hand, and do no more research today, because it's only distressing me and thus impinging upon my ability to be resolutely cheered.
If one suddenly realises that one's doing Bujold-style plotting ("What's the worst thing I can do to these characters that they'll survive") for one's current WIP, the serious drawback is that one has to do the research about the obvious worst thing that one will do.
This is terribly depressing.
de:
There is something terribly satisfying about going and peering at old news links and coming across a remarkably homophobic screed with an ad box at the bottom that reads:
- Ads by Google
Gay/Lesbian Weddings
Gay/Lesbian Civil Unions
Join Dean for America
I shall be resolutely cheered by the delightful juxtaposition of the aforementioned other hand, and do no more research today, because it's only distressing me and thus impinging upon my ability to be resolutely cheered.
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The research . . . muh. I don't want to say explicitly because it's a ways off yet and I don't want to spoil my first reader here. Basically, it's -- I know that a certain set of traumatic events are going to happen to this set of characters, and so I need to do research on the particular manifestations of those events (like when I was researching a venom and working out what would happen with someone poisoned with that venom) so as to present them believably and accurately.
I'm finding the research a bit distressing.