Do you research your novel?

by Adrian Sroka
4th January 2013

If I have to do any research, I do it from he comfort of an armchair.

My research is reading as many books as I can about my genre. The bulk of my chivalric novel is a product of my imagination.

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I write about places I've never been to so a lot of my research is on Google Earth. I'm currently writing about the plane parked in Russell Square, London! The worst thing about that is I'm only half joking. My next book does begin and end in Russell Square tube station and I'll be very surprised if I don't end up mentioning the plane. And as I've beeen sitting here thinking about it I've just come up with the whole premise for that book. It's all about the person we present to the world and the lie that tends to be. Yay! Thanks for that Adrian. Isn't it funny how you can think about something for years but only on certain days do the pieces of the puzzle fall into place.

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My research is also of the armchair variety. Nothing quite beats immersing yourself in a reference book and absorbing facts that way.

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That's about the size of it.

I'm always looking for period events that don't quite make logical sense or which historians disagree over. It's easier to have fictional characters affect these, provided the eventual outcome matches history. Because then those individuals might, just, have been there in real life :)

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