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[the-gabih.livejournal.com]

As far as research goes, how much are you doing this month as you write? If something comes up that you can get away with sketching out rather than using detail that requires you to do some slightly in-depth stuff, which do you go for? And what's the oddest thing you've had to research so far for your NaNo, whether it was done this month or before NaNo began?

I did next to no research before this month, so I've been pretty much looking things up as they appear in the story. So far I've had to Google floriology, traditional Italian guitar music, Hungarian and German swear words and the history of Sealand (though the last one turned out to be unneccessary, although still fairly funny). The way in which blood splatters after a stabbing has also cropped up too, although that was less fun to research.

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[jasper-child.livejournal.com]

I've actually been trying to avoid researching for any part of my novel, except when I couldn't avoid it.'

For instance, I know nothing about the Spanish Navy or merchant ships... or anything nautical for that matter so I did the barest amount of research and stopped myself before I went too far. Probably the most in-depth I went was for the second mate (which my MC is) and even then I tried to forget most of what I found out so it could hover in my subconscious.
When I do go too far, I tend to lose ideas in the process (and since it's quantity over quality, I'm saving my research time for later).

...The last thing I searched for was a name for the friend character I just made.