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@CatMint5: How do you research? Do you prefer reading online, reading a book or talking to someone who is knowledgable in the field? Do you use any other methods?
Research to me doesn't feel like research! I only write books about stuff that I like anyway, so I tend to read up on them for fun. I wrote Across the Universe because I love astronomy. I've always loved it; I followed it for years. The stuff I knew about space was stuff that I'd read and watched and knew and loved far before I ever started writing a sci fi book. And the stuff I have to research on the spot--stuff that I needed to know for the story--was easy and fun, like solving a puzzle to make the science meet the fiction.
For A World Without You, the research was more specific. I needed to know exact diagnoses, symptoms, treatments...but I also had to do it without compromising the story. And, in the end, it wasn't about the science as much as the story, so most of what I knew never made it into the book.
Research is an iceberg. The reader sees only the tip, but all that other stuff, the writer carries around in her head.
ESTÁS LEYENDO
A World Without You
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