I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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.
Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.
To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.
I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.
I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing.
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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