Some nights I don’t get a lot of words down on my electronic paper, but I do a lot of reading and researching for points large and small. I love this project because I’ve gotten to read up on such a diverse list of things. Topics so far have included:
- electric guitars
- Montmartre
- tarot
- strip-club scams
- keratin in human hair vs spider silk
- automatic writing
- Roman mythology
- Earth energy
- alchemy
- funny t-shirts
- tectonic plates and tidal waves in the Southern hemisphere
- phobias
Not everything I’ve researched has actually been implemented in the story, but knowing a bit about something that will be useful in the future helps me plot out those sections in my head. I spent most of tonight trying to tease out a synonym for something that I liked the sound of, and just now, at this moment, thought of a way that I could just make up my own instead and have it seem plausible. Because plausibility is important when you’re writing supernatural fiction, right?