The more I think about it, the less important the "southern culture" angle seems to me. The idea I have involves a couple of teen runaways stumbling across an old, crumbling estate and setting up residence for awhile to sort of play house. I want to compare the decaying state of the house and grounds to the dysfunction in the two kids' relationship, so it will be necessary to know a bit about the architecture/layout of whatever style of estate I choose.
Anyway, research is the best part! I am horrible at it though, because I always get distracted and find myself so far afield I don't even remember what I was looking for in the first place.
This is one of my main problems with researching! One subject leads to another, which segues into another, and another, until I'm reading about Medieval medical practices when I was meant to be looking up the name of a common shrub that might grow in the South.
That, and the difficulty of having to sift through so much information that's irrelevant to what you want to know in order to find something useful are my main downfalls in research.
Good luck with your writing, and with work tomorrow!
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Date: 2010-08-30 04:53 am (UTC)Anyway, research is the best part! I am horrible at it though, because I always get distracted and find myself so far afield I don't even remember what I was looking for in the first place.
This is one of my main problems with researching! One subject leads to another, which segues into another, and another, until I'm reading about Medieval medical practices when I was meant to be looking up the name of a common shrub that might grow in the South.
That, and the difficulty of having to sift through so much information that's irrelevant to what you want to know in order to find something useful are my main downfalls in research.
Good luck with your writing, and with work tomorrow!