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Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
Jun. 29th, 2018 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mithen--What kind of research do you do, and how long do you spend researching before beginning a book?
I freaking love research. I basically let whatever fic I'm writing determine my current reading list so I'm always absorbing more information from various tangents from fandom. I ended up in an entirely different fandom because I was doing research for an AU, so that can be dangerous! But right now I'm reading up on the history of Quebec during WWI (it's fraught! Apparently there were a lot of Francophone draft dodgers!) and loving it... oh, and reading Japanese boy's love vampire manga to steal me some tropes. I'm a vacuum cleaner when it comes to research...
I freaking love research. I basically let whatever fic I'm writing determine my current reading list so I'm always absorbing more information from various tangents from fandom. I ended up in an entirely different fandom because I was doing research for an AU, so that can be dangerous! But right now I'm reading up on the history of Quebec during WWI (it's fraught! Apparently there were a lot of Francophone draft dodgers!) and loving it... oh, and reading Japanese boy's love vampire manga to steal me some tropes. I'm a vacuum cleaner when it comes to research...
