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I understand that you say that you're not a fan of research, but I can think of no better or fun "research" than a few hours of range time.
jp68112 said:Yes, research is a necessary evil. I love to learn, you have to love that to be a writer because you're writing about your observations of the world around you. But research always feels like something that is stopping me from doing the fun part, the writing. Because right now all I want to do is write this story while the spark is still in me, but I can't because I don't know about guns. Still, I'm just going to write the story first (maybe just the chapters that don't involve much gun use), and then research because I don't want that enthusiasm to go away without having written anything. Right now I'm in the "oh my god I HAVE to write this story" phase, but that doesn't last forever. I can write during the "I'm not excited about this anymore" phase, but I have to write while it still feels fresh and exciting, even if it means butchering gun scenes along the way.
This gun thing does make me nervous. I have a completed ya fantasy and I made up a magic system. That's the best because you can't get it wrong so long as you don't break your own rules, but they're rules you get to make up. I did a ton of medieval research though. Us writers google the strangest things...
With someone who will be killed if they are caught, resistance is almost guaranteed
my characters could just point a gun at a person and detain them. Done.
all it would seem to take is someone to fire a gun the end