The Random Research Stage

I'm working on Lukas and Alan for Goodreads. I'm researching a lot of things I didn't know I was going to need to know. Rescued Greyhounds. Old cemeteries (and the difference between a cemetery and a churchyard!) Lightning strikes, Chinese Crested dogs, and the Underground Railroad.

It's a lot of fun. It's also slow going, because every few paragraphs there's something to know that I don't know. (The characters are mostly college students with completely different interests from mine, and I...