Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[mithen]

--What is the most surprising thing you discovered while writing?

I do so much research that it's hard to remember what exactly I learned for fic! Maybe the amount I learned about male escorts for married women, or cicisbeo, in Regency England? That was fun.

No writing this week as online classes continue to eat my soul. Though I did get a hankering to write a soulmates AU in which you can't lie to your soulmate. Oh, the delicious angst. I hope ideas are fizzing in your brains this week!

Comments

[navaan]

That's an interesting question. I do go off on research tangents that I have a hard time remembering what I learned for a story. Often it's the other way around, I learn something that I find surprising or interesting and then it makes its way back into the writing later.

The most surprising discoveries about myself do happen during exchanges, when I do stretch a little beyond the confines of what I'm comfortable with. I discovered that I like writing action scenes, how to writie characters and pairings that I hadn't considered before and even discovered my love for unexpected things just because a request pushed me into it.

Hope you get through online classes okay! But it's good you're excited about the angst though!

I have been writing a fandom that I haven't written before and it's been daunting and intersting at the same time.

[bradygirl_12]

Fun question!

You can learn such interesting stuff. I knew about Washington, D.C.'s cherry trees but delved into the subject way more extensively for a story and learned that the woman who championed the idea was persistent until she finally saw the trees in bloom. :)

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore tangled with the cantankerous old codgers in Congress and ultimately won. :)

Kick butt with the online classes!

I'm currently writing a Due South story which is really going well. :)