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Research Thread Anonymous 03/02/16 (Wed) 20:05:55 No.8891

Post random knowledge you acquired while researching for your works. We all have our areas of expertise; those don't count. Bonus points if you can guess what someone else is writing, based on his research.

I'll start:

>Cluster-headaches are linked to the hypothalamus, and they are among the worst pains known to mankind, feeling like someone is pushing white-glowing iron into your eye

>Damage to the supramarginal gyrus in the temporal lobe can cause Gerstmann-syndrome, meaning that you can't read, calculate, count, or even into left and right

Pic unrelated, it's from my old info-folder.

Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 18:10:44 No.8909

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>tfw wrote 2 novels without any research

Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 18:17:04 No.8910

Research shouldn't be important to writing unless you're writing Dan Brown tier wank novels. Name a single novel that's considered a classic and had dedicated research put into it.

Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 18:52:03 No.8911

>>8910

>Research shouldn't be important to writing unless you're writing Dan Brown tier wank novels.

Never read any of his works. Wasn't interested. Am I right to assume that it's all about dumping historical trivia?

>Name a single novel that's considered a classic and had dedicated research put into it.

Peter Watts has done a shitload of research for his books, and they are among the best hard sci-fi of the last decades, despite the blatant leftism.

Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 21:35:58 No.8912

>>8911

I'm this guy. Just so no one accuses me of samefagging.

>>8909

What novels did you write? Because you could either be a pretentious dickhead who decries genre-bullshit because reasons - no offense, we are called e/lit/ists for a reason - or you could just have acquired specialized knowledge and are writing what you know. Me, I'm formally studying law and I know about forensics and the work of intelligence services from my time of being completely paranoid, so I can nicely avoid having to look up how an interrogation works before I write one.

I go out of my way to avoid hearing VIP-drama, because I see only negative value in it. So really, I am a pretentious dickhead myself.

Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 23:05:43 No.8916

>>8891

I researched how to make clothes from the ground up. It was only mentioned twice or thrice on whatever I'm writing, though. Still, it was good to know the process.

Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 23:13:34 No.8917

>>8916

Shit, I barely ever describe clothing, unless it's particularly sexy. Will do that on my rewrite, I think.

Anonymous 03/04/16 (Fri) 16:13:53 No.8926

>>8912

Urban fantasy. Magical powers in a city, ruled by the evil gubbermint agency