The Case of the Procrastinating Story Teller

[roxy]

Can a gun really fire silver bullets? What does a disemboweled body smell like? It's been an interesting evening. Looking up stuff for a story I'm playing with has taken me from Wu-Tang to the Home&Garden channel. Is it any wonder that writing takes me aaaaaaall day long? I mean, if the action in your story takes place in a bathroom, do you look up what is the most popular flooring material at the moment? Is this research or noodling? That little scene in EOTS I wrote about Clark in the bathroom took forever. But I learned a lot about bathrooms back in the day, and I found out that full baths with tubs and showers and stuff were being built into homes a lot earlier than I thought. Fascinating no? Of course! Guess what I'm doing this very moment? Blathering so I don't have to write! Yes! I do that! All the time!

I *love* story-telling!

Comments

[rosy5000.livejournal.com]

*smooches*

You never cease to amuse me. :D *giggles*

Now, I'll leave you alone so you can go write more. ;D

*huggles*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*snorfle*

I'm happy to amuse my darling! *hugs*

[helioshyperion.livejournal.com]

Wow, I usually do some research on stuff that I just want to get right and need a little more info on, but you are hardcore.

Roxymissrose, Miss Queen of Everything Research 2008.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I think what I do is more of a info-sufing kind of thing than real research but boy, you can really get caught up in it, lol!!

[helioshyperion.livejournal.com]

Ah, then this involved several wikipedia tangents, I presume? That website is an info-surfing blackhole.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

oh, so very very many! Wikipedia is like chocolate!

[danceswithgary]

Research? Nah...well, okay, I confess I tend to get caught up with looking up things like what gun the best spies use and address of a fine hotel in Paris and how long it would take to drive from Zurich to Paris and which roads to take and....

And what songs would work in a fic set in the 1930's. *grin*

Then there are the images I go cruising for when I put together covers.

Writing? What's that?

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

See, you know exactly what I mean, lol! It gets so fascinating I end up wandering all over the place!

OMG, I can imagine what would happen if I had any kind of ability to do art! I kind of figured you were having a good time looking up stuff for covers. *grin*

Boy, do I feel your pain!

[kyanoswolf]

I know what you mean about nitpicking the details of your own story. I've completely derailed stories because I couldn't fit details I wanted into real historical periods. I've spent weeks learning about everything from geography to pre-conquest writing systems. I've learned that Google is an insiduous trap. Don't ever think that there's not such a thing as too much information.

I've actually thrown up my hands and declared a story to be a completely fantastical AU so that I'd stop researching and just tell the story.

Re: Boy, do I feel your pain!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Google *is* a trap! It can pull you into a steadily escalating round of checking facts!

I've actually thrown up my hands and declared a story to be a completely fantastical AU so that I'd stop researching and just tell the story.

YES! I *know*! *looking at the sad little corpses of my Egyptian story and my Roman story.*

[tabaqui]

Wheeeeeee!
Research is the *best part*!
:)
*twirls you*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*dips you and plants a big ole smackeroo on your cheek*

it is, it is! *G*

[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude! Do you remember the chapter I wrote in CFMWH that took place during Lex and Bruce's semester at Princeton? For that, I spent literally FOUR hours looking around all the various suburbs outside Princeton, NJ and finding their apt. and figuring the driving time. . . and then I went into Lex's "school" websites -- Princeton and Harvard -- and plotted out what Lex's friggin' course schedules would be, and when his finals were and what day of the week that would have fallen on (coz that chapter took place so long ago :). . .

yeah, I totally get it. *huff* Urrgh. And now, I'm going to have to look up all sorts of law stuff for when they start getting the case together. . . and all I know about that is what I learned a long time ago from my father and L&O episodes! *g* Ah, writing! Can't live with it, and. . .

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

omg...I think I love you....

[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

. . . so what are you so afraid of? Are you afraid that you're not sure of a love there is no cure for? But isn't that what life is made of--

Oh, my God. I apologize for lapsing into song there. That was completely uncalled for. *G*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Mikey's singing with you!

[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

He totally would, too, is what's hilarious! I can almost picture him belting that out. Oh, you made my night! *G*

[dawnybee.livejournal.com]

What does a disemboweled body smell like?

*blinks*

But I learned a lot about bathrooms back in the day, and I found out that full baths with tubs and showers and stuff were being built into homes a lot earlier than I thought. Fascinating no? Of course!

You know, it actually is!

Looking up stuff for a story I'm playing with has taken me from Wu-Tang to the Home&Garden channel.

::wonders how roxy will use C.R.E.A.M in the story::

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

wonders how roxy will use C.R.E.A.M in the story::

*falls down laughing*

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

>I *love* story-telling!

that is what i love most about your writing. it shows!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I do! When we were kids, we always told each other stories, or the other two would make me draw the story and tell it to them. Heh--my sister was in her twenties trying to make me read stories to her...lol! We're kind of special, me and mine.

[carolandtom.livejournal.com]

No wonder your bathroom scenes are the best ones ever! :D

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

lol!! *hugs you*
Thank you, love!

[xinsidemyskinx.livejournal.com]

Can guns really fire silver bullets... in books they can and in the films so i'm going to go with yeah heh.

And i think disembowled body smell like outhouses, but that's not something i really wanna research for you heh. But then i guess that poses to what the hell do out-houses smell like? It's not something i've ever had the misfortune of ever having my nose stuck in.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I never found out what they smell like! I had to guess! *pout*
I didn't like that. :(

[epeters.livejournal.com]

What does a disemboweled body smell like?

I'm intrigued. lol

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I never found out! but I did find out that no matter how gross you think people are, they're much grosser than that. I found dozens of links you couldn't give me cash money to click on...'disemboweled body' takes you places, let me tell you! *erf*