Oh, the monotony! This was supposed to be fun! I know, research, to many aspiring writers, can be incredibly disheartening, but I promise it's entirely worth it in the end. If you want to reach your fullest potential in anything, it's crucial to seek advice from people with experience in whatever it is that you've set out to do (this case being writing). Not only will this help you progress infinitely quicker than if you had tried to figure it all out on your own, but it will drastically improve the quality of the piece by making you more knowledgeable and more comfortable with your writing.
Whether you like it or not, situations will come into your writing process that leave you clueless as to how to best describe something or if something you wanted to include is as common as you thought it was. For clarification, say you want about a musician in Italy during the 1650's. You are not a musician, nor have you ever been to Italy, and let's hope for everyone's sakes that you weren't alive for the 1650's. So where do you start? I think you know my answer.
When in doubt, consult your good friend, Google, or of course, your friendly neighborhood public library. You have to write about music but you don't even know the terminology. There art thou researching. You don't understand the culture appropriate for the time and place. There art thou researching. You want to connect with your audience and have them identify with your character, and to do that, you need to know what people identify most with. There art thou researching. When writing anything, you need to make a point of knowing what you're talking about. If you don't I guarantee that your reader will know. I mean, just imagine (and I'm exaggerating here) a book about George Washington's road to becoming the president of France. Inconceivable!
Whether you like it or not, situations will come into your writing process that leave you clueless as to how to best describe something or if something you wanted to include is as common as you thought it was. For clarification, say you want about a musician in Italy during the 1650's. You are not a musician, nor have you ever been to Italy, and let's hope for everyone's sakes that you weren't alive for the 1650's. So where do you start? I think you know my answer.
When in doubt, consult your good friend, Google, or of course, your friendly neighborhood public library. You have to write about music but you don't even know the terminology. There art thou researching. You don't understand the culture appropriate for the time and place. There art thou researching. You want to connect with your audience and have them identify with your character, and to do that, you need to know what people identify most with. There art thou researching. When writing anything, you need to make a point of knowing what you're talking about. If you don't I guarantee that your reader will know. I mean, just imagine (and I'm exaggerating here) a book about George Washington's road to becoming the president of France. Inconceivable!
Until next time!