tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894417994532630432.post3787762110327356240..comments2021-05-19T23:37:25.682-04:00Comments on The Shaman Papers: Researching Your Novelggrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06794262315030983630noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894417994532630432.post-28595247777150364082010-03-30T15:53:05.375-04:002010-03-30T15:53:05.375-04:00Internet and reading books! I've also intervie...Internet and reading books! I've also interviewed people in the job positions of my characters.L. Diane Wolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06425864276166334896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4894417994532630432.post-13725188573654125782010-03-30T12:04:18.113-04:002010-03-30T12:04:18.113-04:00I do some research on what I'm writing, but no...I do some research on what I'm writing, but not as much as it sounds like you're doing. My research is mostly to get the tone of a setting correct - like when I went to the peach orchard last year to get a feel for the people working there and to ask some questions about working a fruit farm in the South. I guess I personally stick close to what my screenwriting teacher Scott Gould told me years ago... "Don't write what you know. Write what you know well enough to lie about." I just need a little touch here and there to make it convincing. To make you believe I know WTF's going on, when in all actuality, I'm almost as blind as the reader. I'm only interpreting what the Universe has passed to me, you know. ;)B. Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10112783922833164491noreply@blogger.com