novel_in_90: Wordcount for Thursday, July 17th, 2008

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unforth) wrote in

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@ 2008-07-17 14:39:00

Wordcount for Thursday, July 17th, 2008
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” -Zora Neale Hurston

So who other than me and

o_yannik are doing a project with research involved? What are you researching?

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unforth
2008-07-17 06:48 pm UTC (link)

1223. I've got research on the brain. It dawned on me that my assumption that the area around St. Petersburg/Leningrad was hilly and like tundra was utterly ridiculous and I oughta find out what it was really like. So today I did research on the area (flat and covered in trees) and the weather (cold), looked at pictures of the area around Leningrad during the siege, found some maps of the battle lines from September instead of May, 1942 (my folks are there in early October), data on first aid for bullet wounds (poor MC...), and figured out how far it would be from Leningrad to Helsinki while avoiding the main places where troops were situated (280 miles or so). Over all, my research for this project has been aimed at World War 2, with side investigation on all manner of random things that I just don't know about.

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	la_marquise_de_ 2008-07-17 10:18 pm UTC (link)
	Good total. And the subject matter sounds fascinating, too. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	skogkatt 2008-07-18 03:43 am UTC (link)
	You are really hopping along on this. Excellent count, and good research work! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mnfaure 2008-07-18 10:46 am UTC (link)
	Ah, the joys of being a writer and the things we learn! Great count. (Reply to this)(Parent)

andelku
2008-07-17 07:10 pm UTC (link)

Stuff I'm researching:

Christopher Marlowe
and his friends
and his death
and his enemies
and Thomas Kyd
and Will Shakespeare
and the Walsinghams
Elizabethan drama
Continental 16th century drama
16th century technical theater (stole some things from late 17th century)
Queen Elizabeth's spy network
16th century alchemy
Emperor Rudolph II
Phillip II of Spain
and his torturers
The Holy Roman Empire
Other Random Hapsburgs
The 30 Years War
Rudolfine Prague
John Dee
Edward Kelley
Michal Sendigovius
Michal Maier
Gypsies
Jannissaries
Witch trials
Rosicrucians
Heretics
Early chemistry, physics, medicine and a tidge of astronomy
Hermetic magic
The Bible
Hussite Protestants
Lutherans
Utraquists
The Rozemberk family
Elizabeth Weston (forgotten 16th century Neolatin poet)
The Lost Colony
Thomas Harriot and the School of Night
16th century atheism
Translations of the Bible
Roman and Greek literature
AND
The Spanish Inquisition

(sigh)

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	andelku 2008-07-17 07:11 pm UTC (link)
	And ... I wonder why this book is taking so long ... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	andelku 2008-07-17 07:12 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, and the God Dionysos in his role as patron of the theater. Shouldn't leave him out! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	We know what's good for us and yet... mnfaure 2008-07-17 08:06 pm UTC (link)
	sigh Didn't get my words in early, but at least I got them in... 766 Not doing active research at the moment, but I have many things to look up, like ancient civilizations. Now off to bed I go... (Reply to this)(Thread)

	learningtoread 2008-07-17 08:45 pm UTC (link)
	792 Since I'm writing a historical set in a time I'm already very familiar with, my research today has been limited to the location of the Children's Aid Society. And Moros and Eris, like everyone else. ;-) I am officially beginning the middle. I have a plot! Hooray! Also, I do love cookies. When they're frozen, in this weather. I have a plot! I can't get over this! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	811 mindseas 2008-07-17 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	I'm researching Mars, including the old maps that showed canals. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	1503 jewell79 2008-07-17 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	I'm researching torture and its effects for one character - that's the only major thing. And a few weapons-type things. And how intelligence services work. It must be quite rare to do no research at all, even if it's only looking up distances or street plans or stuff like that. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	896 martyn44 2008-07-17 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	Luneville has expanded by 896 words today. Not as many as I might have liked, but more than it might have been, and I'm getting close to the point where I can reuse some of the words I junked to start this second version of the story. Zilch research in this one, so far, just the exploration of some dark corners if my mind that had hitherto escaped my attention. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mikandra 2008-07-17 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	3500. All on a short story, I'm afraid. glares at manuscript (Reply to this)(Thread)

	1150 la_marquise_de_ 2008-07-17 10:18 pm UTC (link)
	I always seem to need to know something: so far, this book has made me learn about permafrost, how to trap water in a low-water environment, bees, ferrets, the underground printing trade in the eighteenth century, the ethics of property ownership, the French Revolution, the correct way to maintain a carbine rifle and Chinese astronomical water clocks. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	killermanikins 2008-07-18 01:34 am UTC (link)
	I had 1,421. Still less than I wanted, though. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	2363 glass_mountain 2008-07-18 02:07 am UTC (link)
	I've had a bit of a major plot shift... Research for this one has included First World War biplanes and medieval siege warfare. And quite a lot about horses. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	skogkatt 2008-07-18 03:31 am UTC (link)
	415 today, which is better than I had feared I would get. We have Moss's aunt visiting, and I spent nearly every second entertaining her. So, I'm behind, but it might've been a lot worse. I am doing research on trains and coal and steampower! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	924 kay_willow 2008-07-18 07:13 am UTC (link)
	Late night update: 924 words. There isn't a lot of research in my project, except in terms of world-building and then going back to find out what exactly I built into the world. Thank goodness the game project has a wiki, so that I can keep track of the world details...! (Reply to this)(Thread)

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