Research is a lovely thing. Why, if I hadn't done some admittedly half-assed research for that Tombstone WIP, I'd never have known that Bat Masterson had a pimp stick, and my world would have been a sadder and far less amusing place.
See, this is why people who don't like doing research baffle me, cause it's half the fun. I mean really, how can people not enjoy finding out that Bat Masterson had a pimp pimp-stick. Or that Virgil used to call Wyatt the 'Earp-ape'. Or that Doc was born with a cleft-palate, and had to be fed out of a shot glass as a baby. Or, well, all of those fun facts that research can turn up, which are at least half the reason that I like writing historical fiction.
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Date: 2006-04-15 10:31 pm (UTC)See, this is why people who don't like doing research baffle me, cause it's half the fun. I mean really, how can people not enjoy finding out that Bat Masterson had a pimp pimp-stick. Or that Virgil used to call Wyatt the 'Earp-ape'. Or that Doc was born with a cleft-palate, and had to be fed out of a shot glass as a baby. Or, well, all of those fun facts that research can turn up, which are at least half the reason that I like writing historical fiction.