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This panel is about researching those little details that will make your story's setting feel real. Particularly research for a time and place that's not easy to find specifics about online or in one's local library.
This idea was sparked by my difficulties in finding information about 17th century Wales that will distinguish it from England during the same time period. Also by the experience of having my first published story, set in modern-day Chicago or a facsimile thereof, reviewed critically for its failure in this regard. (Not that it would actually have been difficult to research, but I got carried away and sent it out without doing the research that would have made that one telling detail work. Mea culpa.)
Experts, historians, librarians, and anyone else with awesome superpowers of research will be served virtual chocolate and very real accolades.
The official start time for this panel is Friday, but since we're online please feel free to drop in whenever you want to.
This idea was sparked by my difficulties in finding information about 17th century Wales that will distinguish it from England during the same time period. Also by the experience of having my first published story, set in modern-day Chicago or a facsimile thereof, reviewed critically for its failure in this regard. (Not that it would actually have been difficult to research, but I got carried away and sent it out without doing the research that would have made that one telling detail work. Mea culpa.)
Experts, historians, librarians, and anyone else with awesome superpowers of research will be served virtual chocolate and very real accolades.
The official start time for this panel is Friday, but since we're online please feel free to drop in whenever you want to.
