Consider This: Writing and Research

Finally back to some writing. It's hard to write when you have a million things going on in your life and your head is not in the writing space.

Anyway, back to writing the story of Mary & Martha. I've done SO much research on this and, yet, I feel like with every sentence and every new scene I have to do so much more.

How do I navigate the mire of writing without feeling I know the times and everything I want to write about?

Stephen King, in his book "On Writing" recommends that the first draft should be written with "the door shut", as if no one is ever going to read it. And then the editing is done with "the door open".

I have resolved to write and put in a modicum of good detail, but get the actual story down from beginning to end before I do the edit and fill it with some outstanding research, including, it seems, some locational research as my hubby is determined to take me to Israel after Christmas to visit all the sites.

The trick is not to get bogged down in the research thinking it needs to be complete before I write. One can be mired in research and use it as an excuse to procrastinate (which I think I've been doing). It's time to get down to writing.