Yesterday I gave a paper at a social medial historical conference. It may be my last paper for a while.
Tag: research
PhD’s
Have I mentioned that I'm thinking about going for one? I have a masters in creative writing and I have found a project that I really want to study. Nineteenth Century industrialisation and disability... Sounds boring? It isn't. Imagine being about to interview the disabled from two centuries ago. There would be some that couldn't… Continue reading PhD’s
Research or not to research
Normally I research as I write. When a tricky subject comes up I hit the books and Google and find out what I can. Except that this slows up my writing. A lot. So this time I have started an experiment. I took two weeks out before I began the book, and I researched the… Continue reading Research or not to research
Research is the pits… but I love it…
I really do. When I get an idea I sit down and write a plan. It normally starts as one sentence which I expand to a paragraph and then I start to think about semantics. How does this world exist? Sometimes that is an easy ask, like the WIP which is set completely in one… Continue reading Research is the pits… but I love it…
Research and how much of a story ought to be true?
I was researching an essay on Dinosaur Footprints and I decided to include North Brother Island, which is an abandoned quarantine island between the Bronx and Queens. There is an abandoned leper colony in America, right next to NYC… If you look at it online then you can see the devastation, the trees growing through… Continue reading Research and how much of a story ought to be true?
Kate Murray - Cleaver 