Research

I like doing research.

I don't think I do all too much of it, all in all - I'm not that fussed about everything being absolutely accurate in every way - but I tend to end up growing curious of whatever I'm writing at a time and picking up bits and pieces of it. I'm probably not alone in this.

The most fun part, though, is when all that research meets fantasy... and gets all mucked up.

Like when you read about the cuisine of native South Americans... except in this story they're actually birds, and their lack of teeth is certainly going to throw a wrench to all I know. So now I have to figure out how it changed things, and that more likely than not is entirely up to me.

Lately I've been reading on sailing, Italian architecture, submarines, Jules Verne, and some more food stuff. All of this is surely going to be twisted pretty hard too.