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[felisblanco]

I should be working on my MA story, which of course means I'm surfing the internet and looking at pretty pics of pretty boys. I'd feel bad except... well, they're just so pretty. And I still have a year left to finish it. So... *shrugs

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[felisblanco]

Which brings us to the research. At first I didn't really need to do much research apart from being familiar with the shows or remember the interior of an Impala and stuff like that, I just focused on making the characters feel real. That was my only goal, bringing them to life, making them believable. Until I wrote In a Mirror Distorted and Indistinct. It started out innocently enough but then I realised I had taken on something that was far beyond my knowledge and it was with a subject I really couldn't fuck up because this is so many people's reality. So yeah, that needed a lot of research and I was terribly nervous about posting it. But because I did put in a lot of research I somehow managed to pull it off. To get feedback from people who struggle with that same thing and they thank me for doing it right, that is incredibly rewarding. And quite humbling actually.

Then there was Doors. It wasn't like I could research magic but it was the first time I had a specific place in mind for the setting, a place I had never even been to, New York. (See, this is why my stories usually take place in Boston, where I've been, or LA because that is the US city most portrayed in media.) So I had to research the city, Central Park, Juilliard... I even had my sister go and take pictures in certain places or asked my friend who lives there to check stuff for me. And I still got things wrong, obviously. Still it was stuff that might make me look stupid but wasn't really harmful or insulting, except maybe to people's intelligence. lol

Writing The Puzzle was on the other hand really nervewracking because well, I had already told someone I wouldn't write about autism because I knew nothing about it. So when I suddenly had this person in my head, wanting me to tell his story... Well, I would never have done it without a LOT of research and most of all, I got "inside" help. Without it I would have totally crashed and burned, I'm sure. But like with Mirror, getting feedback saying I got it right, it's the best feeling in the world.

And you already know, I think, how crazy it's been writing this PTSD fic. And man, I am so nervous about it because I worry I dropped the ball with my research for reasons I will explain once I post. And this is really sensitive stuff. Seriously, why can't I just write fluffy little PWP? *headdesk*

Damn, this got long. Did I forget something?