Strange Things You've Had to Research for Your Writing

i mostly just need the reminder of what fabric looks like when it hangs at different angles. fabric looks random until you do it random, then it looks terrible. i usually hand draw and then free-hand on photoshop, merge the two for best results.crisp lines and crosshatching of the pencil flick, and the smoothness of the airbrush goes well.

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I lost all my drawing talent, so kudos to you! :blush:

I just had to research various different kinds of natural poison and dangerous animal’s latin names so I could mesh the names together into various mythical creatures.
Why did I need the scientific names for my mythical creatures?
Well, apparently, one of my characters just came out as a scientist. Like the exact opposite of what I outlined for her character. So this is going to be fun, having a character who’s smarter than I am :sweat_smile:

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I’ve had to try and resarch pornography and how much they get paid, that kind of thing.
My internet history is errrr questionable XD I can just imagine people looking it wondering if I’m going into the porn industry XD

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Omg! This is a struggle I love with daily! XD my one character is a polyglot and has so many degrees and I’m over here like “Okay, why’d I do this again?” (Like his multiple languages and stuff actually get used in the story as well as various knowledge he has, so sometimes I’m over here like “How do I say this in (Latin, French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, etc.) :woman_facepalming:t5:“.

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Tell them to mind their own business xD. You’re securing your future xD (they don’t need to know it’s in writing :joy:).

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Wow, that sounds fun :sweat_smile:
I’m in for a wild ride with this character!

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It is fun, but my character be making me feel dumb :sweat_smile:. Lol

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LMAO omg I might just use that XD

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Feel free! :rofl:

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So I have a slight idea to kinda write a murder mystery book and I know how the victim dies. My thing is I have to google what knife is best used to slit someone’s throat, but that is kinda an intimidating thing to google

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I mean… if you’re gonna google then may as well go all out (google disposal of the body, prison sentences for murder, which countries can’t the US extract wanted people…:eyes:)…

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Oh for sure but I have to build up the courage to do google

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Incognito tabs :eyes:

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Incognito tabs and VPN. Mr. FBI Man won’t be able to find me

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Baby names and my parents saw my search history, started to suspect me xD

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Lol you were about to have some explaining to do :joy:.

Didn’t figure out the knife, but figured out a bunch of other stuff so we will see how far I can go before I become completely paranoid

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Cocaine and heroin were the 19th century cough suppressant
opium (laudanum) was like present day sleeping pills/anesthesia (though laudanum was liquid)

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Thomas Hardly invented cliffhangers, his MC was literally left hanging on a cliff at the end of the chapter.(perks of being a wallflower had it wrong)

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