People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
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Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.
I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.
I don't do research. I never have.
I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.
Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.
I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.
I tend to research as I write so that the narrative can take priority, which is important for a piece of fiction, I think, finding out facts as and when I need to.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.