Most people don't profess to like school. I do. Of course, I hate assignments and tests as much as the next person, but I do love the pursuit of knowledge. I like learning random things. I like history. I like understanding how things work. Lucky for me that I am pursuing a career as an author (since I finished up my eternal bachelors degree).
However, there is a certain disregard for the genre I choose to write in (fantasy). People think it's just a whole lot of flights-of-fancy and other useless drivel; that everything that goes into the story is just made up on the spot. They are so wrong! I am constantly researching real information that I need to make my story work, and it is a very fun and enlightening process. Here are some of the things that I can remember researching this year to feed the writing muse: alchemy, cannons, the human circulation system (focusing on heart rates), rubber (naturally produced by a tree), fire hoses (in use much, much longer than you think), ancient plumbing systems (lead pipes, etc. . .), magnetic fields (of the earth and moon and how they interact), rape trauma syndrome (along with PTSD), ship construction, and most recently, spiders (give a spider caffeine and then watch it spin its web, heheh), gliders, hang gliding, and Otto Lilenthal.
Anyway, it's a lot of fun. Hopefully the end product is worth all the work I'm putting in. And good luck trying to figure out how all those subjects fit together:).
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