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FrickingKaos:
I'm gonna be honest, for a lot of my stories I never bothered to do research, prime example is Figured You Out. I used what I knew and went with it, it turned out pretty well. For one of my 1000 Ways snippets I did a little research to find the death by latex allergy idea. (it is hard coming up with a unique death)

This college story is probably the first time I'm doing research extensively, because for one - I didn't go to college, nor did I live in a dorm...and two - I don't know a thing about fraternities. I've been doing a lot of searching on wikipedia and googling...ask ing around and taking notes. I hope it pays off, because I wanted to be accurate. Usually I don't put much thought into the story and just write about locations I know. Like I did with Weird World, I kind of made things up about California but not about New Jersey. With the college story I am going way out of my comfort zone in a few levels as you will see when I post it.

mare:
lol as much as I would love to take credit for the little man thing, it's all Kevin. He called Nick little man on some interview I saw a long time ago & I took it & rolled with it.

I never researched anything for Why I'd Do it all Again but like I said, I never really focused on specifics like venues, cities or what they were singing in concert on any given day. All I cared about was their interactions. Without the research I would still like to think it came off believeable. I'm far too lazy to look up all that stuff. That's why I'm not in grad school as of yet lol I do look up things when I need to though, I just don't often feel that need lol

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: DelphinaCarter on July 12, 2012, 01:33:30 PM ---I'm gonna be honest, for a lot of my stories I never bothered to do research, prime example is Figured You Out. I used what I knew and went with it, it turned out pretty well. For one of my 1000 Ways snippets I did a little research to find the death by latex allergy idea. (it is hard coming up with a unique death)

This college story is probably the first time I'm doing research extensively, because for one - I didn't go to college, nor did I live in a dorm...and two - I don't know a thing about fraternities. I've been doing a lot of searching on wikipedia and googling...ask ing around and taking notes. I hope it pays off, because I wanted to be accurate. Usually I don't put much thought into the story and just write about locations I know. Like I did with Weird World, I kind of made things up about California but not about New Jersey. With the college story I am going way out of my comfort zone in a few levels as you will see when I post it.

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That's how the research thing really started for me, being forced to do it in order to write something I had no clue how to write otherwise.  For me it was Broken that taught me how to research.  I really only researched the medical stuff in that story and made up the rest, but in the sequel, I started looking up more, and by the end of BMS, I was pretty hardcore about researching.  Like I said, it's become like a compulsion for me LOL.

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: mare on July 12, 2012, 01:58:41 PM ---lol as much as I would love to take credit for the little man thing, it's all Kevin. He called Nick little man on some interview I saw a long time ago & I took it & rolled with it.

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Well that's good to know it came from real life!  I really always thought it was a fanfic thing LOL.

myconfession:
Let me be very clear.... I never said that adding real-life events to stories is wrong or wasn't right or anything of the sort. I just made a point to say that some authors use WAY too many real life events as if they are trying to write an autobiography. It's called fan fiction for a reason, why not add some fiction to it? The boys haven't hired anybody to write their story professionally .

For instance, I'm reading Hannah's "Borrowed Time." it's about real events but she adds enough FICTION into it that makes it enjoyable. In fact, I love it and can't wait til I get time to read more.

As for locations, unless I've been there personally, whether it's my comfort zone or not, I don't want to write about it. Granted, I write about Los Angeles a lot, but that's because you see it all the time on television, etc. Does that make me a bad writer? No it does not.

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