Guest Blog: Let’s Call it ‘Research’

Let’s Call it ‘Research’

Guest Blog by Kathleen Sawisky

It can be easy to get distracted. Oh, I like this song!Hey, is that a popcorn kernel stuck in my teeth? Wow, when did I start growing hair there? But sometimes in the journey to creating a novel we become distracted by good things, and sometimes we call these things ‘research’.

I’ll admit, when I started my WIP I didn’t intend to spend so much time reading up about Alcatraz prison, its history, or even its architecture. But somewhere between the thought of “Wow, this would be cool to integrate” and “Hooray, I have finally integrated it” I entered the realm of obsessive…