Strange Things You've Had to Research for Your Writing

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In today’s list of random things looked up for writing:

Is there any metal that doesn’t rust in water?
What can dissolve metal?
What animal has the best wings for flight?
Colors that represent anger, fear, sadness, love, excitement, and happiness
How do motion sensors work?
Alarm sounds
Wire colors
Types of fabric

(This book may be a bit inspired by something I watched-)

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where to BEGIN

I know so much useless information because I had to look it up for my characters

my recents:

  • “is tanned copper a color”
  • “more names for belladonna” / “how poisonous is belladonna”
  • is deckmaster a word? is shipmaster a word?
  • what is a boarding house like in 1920s america
  • what food would be served at a seaside tavern in salem
  • what does an old shipyard look like/smell like
  • how do you climb a tree with somebody piggy back riding you
  • how to climb jungle trees without reasonably using your hands
  • is there a story about a bird and a turtle? no? it’s a crocodile and a scorpian? is there any other story that is similar about a bird and a turtle, because i need it to be a bird and a turtle analogy with the same moral of the story
  • what do brambles look like
  • “despite your lack of X” X is “ability to stay alive/fight for yourself/lack of muscle” what word is it?
  • derogatory insults to call fae of the winter lands?
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Lol did you watch a spy movie about treasure hunting? XD

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the amount of times i look up a word becaue i don’t know if it exists or i made it up XD

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no-

it’s an eight-episode show on YouTube about robots (a friend also watched it for the first time recently, and recommended it to me)

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Not just sandals.

They had shoes, slippers, and boots, too.

But many people hated shoes and boots (too hot), so they went with slippers often. Apparently.

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That, I am curious as well :grin:

I suppose it’s possible if the person piggy-back riding you has a good tight grip around your neck or something

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I just made it so that the tree they were climbing had a ton of footholds/handholds (it’s in the jungle), and my character grew up surrounded by the wilderness anyhow, so XD

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That’s the way to do it XD

If I can’t find exact information, I do things like that, too. Yeah sure, it might be convenient, but it could be true, right? :wink:

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Mooom, Enna isn’t letting me and my professors be nerds on mainnnn

(lol jokes)

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This lmao because my word processor doesn’t believe I can spell (it thinks pre-emptive should be spelled pee-emptive, or perhaps pore-emptive)

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This is what you do before you go on a long car ride and might be stuck in traffic

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Okay, Candace lol - i read this in my Phineas and Ferb voice lol.

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My most recent thing is past life theory. Weird af but interesting.

Not as weird for me but I’ve been reading the Egyptian Book of the Dead

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Ooo, give me a fun fact!

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Past life theory: Those who claim to remember past lives claim to experience 12-16 months of not being alive between lives. Naturally, none of this can be verified but it’s still interesting :joy:

Book of the Dead: There’s a line that translates to english as, and I quote, “I will smite the ass”

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I could say that to a few enemies lol.

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Yes, but I also researched how human compost might be generated (with their own… uh… productive purposes similar to animals) as specific animal manure can benefit gardens with the sort of chemicals that are generated from the feces. With humans, however, it’s actually less beneficial, specifically because it: doesn’t produce the chemicals/victims needed and can spread disease if the human is sick.

All this to say: don’t use bodies to garden :slight_smile: it no good.

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they must’ve never heard the mother may i rhyme about the pear tree :face_with_peeking_eye:

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“I swear I’m a writer” :rofl:

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