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The Surprising Places Research Can Lead You

Diana Clark selected the music because it had been recorded in a place prominently featured in her manuscript. And it took her on a journey.

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How Much Research is Enough?

How deeply we need to research a project depends on comfort level with errors, and intended audience—and that’s just the beginning.

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5 Research Tips for Historical Fiction Writers

Susan Meissner Every now and then I get a little jealous of the freedom that fantasy fiction novelists have to create a world and its history with such creative and even reckless abandon. Since I write historical fiction (emphasis on historical), I don’t experience the same level of artistic liberty. And while I love the […]

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Research trips: No passport required

Sierra Godfrey Remember when you booked a flight to Marseille, France for research purposes? You toured Fort Saint-Jean, strolled around the Vieux Port, and lunched on bouillabaisse at a charming little café in Old Le Panier? Or how about the way the fishing boats sounded when they chug-chug-chugged into the harbor and the fishermen poured […]

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Throwdown Part 2: Write What You Don't Know

by Fae Rowen When Laura Drake originally suggested this topic months ago  I knew I would be on the "don't know" end of the throwdown.  Everyone else at Writers in the Storm writes about what they know.  With Sharla Rae's historicals, she researches and researches until she has notebooks filled with information.  Jenny Hansen writes […]

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