How important are the Details?

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So, you're blasting through your novel this November, and then it happens. You hit a snag. Something that you wanted to have happen, but you don't really know anything about. Since it's NaNo, do you just trundle along anyway, making things up, fudging others, and employing the almighty handwavery? Or do you pause and sacrifice valuable minutes to go do the research to get your facts right?

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[in_excelsis_dea.livejournal.com]

I researh. I wish I didn't have to, but I do. I can't write unless I know that it's true to the best of my ability and even then, I still get nervous that I'm getting something wrong. And if I think something is wrong, I research it to death. Of course, then I get caught up in my research and my focus all goes to that. *sigh* I don't waste minutes -- minutes I could handle. Yesterday I spent nearly the entire day researching pediatric heart transplants.