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Questions to ponder part 11
Rose:
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I am anal about that kind of stuff too, trying to be exciting but also realistic. I remember when I was writing one of the early chapters of Song for the Undead, I had two characters trapped in a car, surrounded by zombies, and I was going to have them crawl out of the moonroof. I started to write it, and then I was like, I wonder if they would really be able to get through the moonroof quickly enough to escape the zombies? So I drove out into the country late at night, parked my car alongside a cornfield, and climbed out my moonroof just to make sure it could be done LOL.
What's the weirdest/craziest thing you've done for the sake of a story?
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Dude I didn't know you did that. That's hilarious and awesome!
Craziest thing I've done for a story. Hmm... There is a mental hospital that wasn't far from where I knew the community college to be. I had to go in and volunteer anyway as part of an assignment. So I did ask if I could see or work around the dementia patients because I was in the early stages of writing Remember Me This Way. (I'd told them it was because I was also doing a paper on it, which was true too LOL). I wanted to witness it for myself. One ended up being an alzheimer's patient which worked out perfectly. So I did see some of it first hand so I could apply some of those behaviors later.
I don't think I would've done it had it not been an assignment but I did use it to my advantage.
Rose:
I talk out my dialogue all the time to make sure it sounds right. My family had long ago become used to it back when I was a teenager LOL.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Rose on July 29, 2014, 06:56:50 PM ---Dude I didn't know you did that. That's hilarious and awesome!
Craziest thing I've done for a story. Hmm... There is a mental hospital that wasn't far from where I knew the community college to be. I had to go in and volunteer anyway as part of an assignment. So I did ask if I could see or work around the dementia patients because I was in the early stages of writing Remember Me This Way. (I'd told them it was because I was also doing a paper on it, which was true too LOL). I wanted to witness it for myself. One ended up being an alzheimer's patient which worked out perfectly. So I did see some of it first hand so I could apply some of those behaviors later.
I don't think I would've done it had it not been an assignment but I did use it to my advantage.
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Hey, why not? Field research!
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