July Challenge - days 11 and 12

[in_lighter_ink]

Sorry about yesterday, folks -- had some internet issues here. Gotta love technology.

But. How were your Mondays? How's it going today?


Today, I've:
--Written
--Edited
--Sent to beta
--Posted
--Planned/Plotted/Researched
--Something else I'll describe in comments

Speaking of research, what's the oddest, or most fun, or most esoteric thing you've ever had to research for a fic? Did you end up using that information?

Comments

[linaewen]

No writing happened. Didn't even think about it all day. It's just not a good week this week -- too hectic around here. I hope I can actually write this week, because if I don't, it will mean all-nighters later in order to finish my Big Bang on time...

I've done a lot of interesting research, but the most fun (and possibly the most odd) was researching how long it would take a small object floating on a fairly-rapid flowing river to go from point A to point B -- the goal being that it had to arrive within a certain amount of time in order to fit with canon events (one of my AU yet canon plot points about which I'm rather a stickler). I researched canon timelines, calculated like mad and even did an experiment with sticks in a stream and a stop watch to time how long it took those sticks to reach a certain point. The end result was very satisfying and my plot point worked wonderfully. Thankfully, I didn't have to cut it after all that work!

I believe that when one does tons of research on a topic, even if you don't end up using it in your fic per se, somehow the fact that you have all this invisible knowledge and background behind you (like what they are drinking!) comes through in how you write about it, even if you don't go into detail like you thought you would.

Unless you totally cut the scene, of course! :-D