I loved research in college and in everyday life, I love learning new things and how they work.But when Im writing, I am deep in imagination, creativity and innocent wonder. I am happily lost in the imaginative world I have created. ……But in order to write authentically, you need to know the things of what you write. ….*sigh*… this means in order to write a good scene, I need to peek my head up and out of the creative world I am imagining and hit google and youtube in order to acquire the facts that will assist in writing my next scene.
It’s a hard shift….. it’s hard to change hats and mindsets….this means a fact comes to bear. Even when lost in an imaginative world, if you want authenticity for your characters, you need to be a big girl and go do the research. And after all, don’t your characters deserve it? ……(yes, but it’s not as fun as writing and making it all up.)