Very well done. I remember when I started to write my first big historical fiction I had to get everything I needed from the library. It was in the days before the internet--early 80s. I'd take the books to work and photocopy them. But I loved doing the research. I just wasn't motivated enough to finish the story properly because it was getting too long. But when Wikipedia came out I realized I had all the information at my fingertips. It didn't matter if it wasn't accurate. I'm writing fiction. Who cares if the sacrificial knife had to be held in the left hand rather than the right? (I made that up.) Now, I write short stories--okay, long ones. You still have to do the research, and I still get side-tracked...so I get it.
Very well done. I remember when I started to write my first big historical fiction I had to get everything I needed from the library. It was in the days before the internet--early 80s. I'd take the books to work and photocopy them. But I loved doing the research. I just wasn't motivated enough to finish the story properly because it was getting too long. But when Wikipedia came out I realized I had all the information at my fingertips. It didn't matter if it wasn't accurate. I'm writing fiction. Who cares if the sacrificial knife had to be held in the left hand rather than the right? (I made that up.) Now, I write short stories--okay, long ones. You still have to do the research, and I still get side-tracked...so I get it.