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Research is vital to every writer, not just the historical ones.

But before all that comes the research, and in my historical genre, I accept that research makes up half my overall project. It all takes time and energy beyond stringing words into sentences, and sentences into stories. There’s revising, editing, promoting, and a whole lot more. Ward! *smile*Īny writer who has been pounding the pavement for a while knows there is a lot more to this author gig than simply writing. Many of her examples below are specific to researching settings, but the steps themselves encompass far broader ideas that we can apply to any kind of research we need. Ward is just the person to help us out, as she comes from a journalism and historical fiction background, so she’s an expert at researching topics. In other words, today’s guest post about how to research our writing projects will be relevant to most of us. If our stories take place outside the real world, we might have to research warp drive or time travel theories, evolution ideas, or cultural or mythological concepts. If our stories take place within the real world, we might have to research historical figures or events, small towns or big cities, or diseases or personality behaviors. No matter what genre we write, we’re likely to have to research something. I probably wasn’t the only one spending precious writing time researching ideas, settings, or other details. That meant my first NaNo day was mostly filled with… *sigh* Research.

How are all my fellow NaNoWriMo writers doing? I started off behind in word count because various pre-November projects kept me busy until November 1st.

Short stories to write a paper on with tons of information