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Posts Tagged research

The Devil’s in the Details

On November 5, 2009   /   Writing  
Tags: characters, intermediate writing, research, setting

In the comments on our last exciting episode, accio_aqualung asked: So pretend you’ve spent so much time on something that you’ve got gobs and gobs of backstory and little trivial details, like the MC is  terminally left handed or her brother has to organize his pens in

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Did They Have Birds in the Fourth Century?

On October 31, 2009   /   Writing  
Tags: basic writing, fantasy writing, research, tools

“How could you write about anything without wondering if it was true? I mean, you’d be describing a bird in a garden and suddenly there would be that awful question in your mind, did they have birds in the fourth century?” (Christopher Isherwood to Gore Vidal, Harpers,

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