Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.
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I think it works differently for everyone. Some people do amazing things with research, but for me, it just gets convoluted, and I start to think too much.
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin to hear people's stories, and huge amounts of information begins to comes straight to my doorstep. Then I can write an even better book the next time!
I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.
I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.
My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story.
Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.
When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
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.