New Theme for December!

I again thank MavFan for letting me put her work through the story grinder. You're brave! I'll see about looking over what I've done to it already and add an extra post if I find something that really should've been addressed but didn't get the chance.

If there's reader interest in seeing what I'd do to their own writings, let me know in the comments, would you? I'm fully capable of coding a contact form if there's need. I would refuse to look at anything with graphic sex, foul language (no blasphemy, please!), or with violence for the "fun" of it.

Nonetheless, my new theme for what remains of December is . . . research!

Now, now. Don't go screaming in the other direction. Research is important . . . as is having some idea how to research. I think you might find this month's posts useful, if only to find out what some people don't know. (And believe me, all of the things I've mentioned, I've had people react as if I'm a whiz 'cause I can do it. I can actually find what I'm looking for with an Internet search engine, for example, and that puzzles my eighteen-year-old brother.)

I'm something of an Internet junkie, I admit. If I can do it online, please let me. But unlike a lot of (particularly young) Internet junkies, I know full well how to go poking around the area libraries if I must. (I'm not just talking about the public library, either.)

Not only that, but it's a good idea to know what needs research when you're writing. From what gets into a lot of novels, these days, I think a lot of us writers tend to forget that not everything is open to artistic license. And I have an example that nails me in that one as much as it does everyone else. (I'm just fortunate that one friend caught the error. But she was not very happy with me.)