Research is one of the areas that I really need to be improving my skills in.  I have never been one to easily sit down and really dig into A subject that I need to help my writing.  When I have given in and actually began some research I did find that it helped more than I could have imagined.  Just that little bit of research opened up an image in my mind of part of the novel and I hope will make it easier when I write the parts where the research is focused on.

I struggle with research because I never know where to start, and because of this I just don’t do it! Which is counter productive to say the least.  I can’t really get into writing, or even planning (which I suck at too, but that’s another blog post)  I was swapping messages with another writer, Tom Blubaugh http://nightofthecossack.com/ and he said simply that with the internet has made research so much simpler, and that is what I need to take advantage off.  I’m one of those cautious paranoid people who don’t really trust the internet (I’m getting Better!) which I think holds me back a little from really using it to its full advantage.  So this week I am going to put A fair bit of my writing aside and really try to get over this daft little p[phobia.  I know where I’m starting and hopefully it’ll escalate from there and I get some damn good information discovered.