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!

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[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*