Here is a question: how much research do you do when it comes to writing a story? Does accuracy mattert when it comes to real places and events?
I do a LOT of research. For Undead, for example, I pretty much know the layout of the MacDill base by heart now LOL. I Google Earth places, to see what they look like. In "Walked Out Of My Dreams" I wanted to be completely accurate and put Brian in a place where literally NO ONE would realize who he was, so I went and found the most isolated place on earth (which took a lot of searching lol). Then I google earth'd it, looked up all this info, so I could describe it like I've actually been there. With Remember Me This Way, I still have countless pages, case studies, videos on things like MRIs, CAT scans, so that I wrote as if I was experiencing it myself.
Even with something like Divine Intervention, I have articles bookmarked from around the time the story takes place in. I have a timeline I found with things that were going on then, the tour dates saved for when I write into the Unbreakable tour. In one of my older stories, I wrote Nick at The Grove, a place I've never been. In a review I got asked if I've been there cause I wrote it that accurately.
I'm pretty anal about research LOL.
My whole thing is that it's so easy to research now, there's no excuse not to if I plan on using real places, real events, etc. I feel like I should know exactly what you're writing about.
But I know I am one of the queens of research lol. (Julie being the other haha)