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May 12th, 2008

Time to Research

  • May. 12th, 2008 at 7:28 PM

I know I've said it before, but I love research.  I finished chapter 25 of Heart of Odin late last week and then spent a good part of Saturday doing research for the next chapter.  In this section of the story the main character ends up going to Jotunheim, the world of the Norse giants.  I spent several hours putting together ancestry charts for the different giants that the character would meet.  It was quite facinating to dive deeper into this side of Norse mythology.  Of course, I had to make some of it up, but the majority is from the various sources that I delved through.

This is one of the interesting parts about writing this story--I enjoy the research just as much as the writing.  I could spend weeks digging through websites and old mythological sources.  At some point--which in this case ended up being Saturday evening at about 11 pm--you just have to stop and get on with the story.  I have enough background material to continue, it just takes a act of will to set the sources aside and get back to the story.

If I had the money, I'd fly to all the locations that I read about and see them firsthand.  Alas, my imagination reaches much farther than my wallet.    

Such is life.
 
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