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⌈ Secret Post #2687 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Breadth vs. depth in writing research

[comma_chameleon]

Agreed with everyone above. There's nothing wrong with researching for accuracy - me, I like to make sure I'm choosing realistic locations if my story is real world located. However, as both a reader and a writer, nothing makes me glaze over faster than someone who spends thirty pages of exposition on minute details.

Like the first anon said, you can do the research if it's something you want to know about, but when it comes to inserting it into the story, make sure it's something that the character(s) would know, and that the readers will want to know about.

Which means if you're writing about assassins, weaponry and fighting styles will probably come up, but you likely don't need to spend 10k of words on the history of modern warfare. Get your reader invested in your characters, don't bog them down in extraneous details.

Re: Breadth vs. depth in writing research

[(Anonymous)]

OP

Thanks for your response!

I definitely feel the same way on not adding on what amounts to "Hey, I did research! APPRECIATE IT". I think one of my sticking points where I can fall down the research hole is in trying to make sure that when different characters discuss something they should have solid grounding in or a strong stance on (especially when I don't), they do so in... well, character.

For instance, one very image-conscious character finds himself wanting to get back into his previous, high-profile career, so the topic of his former work sneaks into his conversations when he gets the reins. And he's a talker, and a bit of a bullshitter. When he mentions his old job to acquaintances, it should be different from when he expounds on it to impress a potential networking contact, or uses it for leverage in a debate with his current coworkers in a related field. He's meant to be comfortable with adjusting vocabulary and what parts he plays up on the fly, but he sometimes misreads his audience or over-extends himself.

So I don't want to unintentionally have him impress a contact with the equivalent of "I am highly proficient in Microsoft Word", but I do want the practical knowledge and experience limits that he ends up having be believable despite being relatively intelligent and ambitious, along with the choices he makes when he starts bullshitting to cover when he's hit those limits in a conversation(oh, hey, bullshitting to cover limited knowledge, whaddaya know :p).