So I’ve started two new stories. And so it goes that research must follow. Lot’s of obscure research, I’m afraid. But it occurred to me that anyone looking in on my new Google habits and didn’t know why I was Googling said subjects might be a tad concerned for my mental health.
Observe a short list for West of the Moon research:
Sword fighting techniques
Immortality legends
History of birth control
History of plumbing
Nineteenth century medical practices
Nineteenth century scalpels
How to suture wounds
Video on suturing techniques
Untraceable poisons
What happens when your throat is cut-and how much pressure to severe neck from head…
Bowie knives (serrated knives), and on, and on…
And then there is my new WIPs (this was just the searches I did yesterday):
Demons (types, legends)
Demon names
Names of saints
Knives (butterfly, titanium)
Kava Maga (Israeli fighting styles)
Guns
Lucifer, Satan, Devil legends
Archangels
Ninja fighting videos using butterfly knives
Erm…violent much? Just your average whacko’s search list, or a writer’s.
Because I suspect all of you have such lists. A crazy assortment of search subjects that bring us deeper into our made-up worlds.
So what’s the strangest thing you’ve looked up? And it’s gotta be said, no matter what I look up, there is always an answer…how crazy is that?
Those are great lists! And we even overlap in one - saints' names.
ReplyDeleteAs for the strangest thing... I'm not sure. Maybe pub names in Rome :-)
LOL! I've looked up many of those same things with my crazy research, too, Kristen.
ReplyDeleteThe strangest thing I've searched for? I think that'd be "blood - how to paint with it." And yes, there was an answer! And examples, including a video of a guy painting a whole portrait with his own blood, from cuts he made in his thumb with a razor ...
The world (and my search history!) is a strange and wonderful place.