{"id":608,"date":"2009-10-17T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T08:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2010-08-11T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T04:25:34","slug":"into-the-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/17\/into-the-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year I&#8217;m gonna document how I can do 1667 words a day for November. Well, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\" target=\"_blank\">Nanowrimo<\/a>, that is. Sure, I can probably write more a day and finish it before the deadline but it&#8217;s just <em>fun<\/em> that way, you know. Plus, I like seeing a gradual incline on the graph on my account there.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not even Nanowrimo-ing, this will still probably be educational if you ever want to figure out how to write at least a novel of your own. Sure, there&#8217;s probably tons of websites out there saying the same thing but heeey, whatever. I just like writing these stuff up anyway to note it down. Thus, this will also be a progress post of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, this year I want to write about superheroes.<\/p>\n<p>Or to be exact, I want to write about the person who makes the super hero outfits.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I know my theme and then I&#8217;ll have to figure out what genre I want to write it as.  I can make it a romance, fantasy, sci-fi or etc but since this is for Nanowrimo and I do terribly like silliness and stuff&#8230; I&#8217;m doing this as a chic-lit.<\/p>\n<p>Anywho, so since this is October, it&#8217;s still research time. You totally need to do some research in knowing what the heck you&#8217;re writing about unless you&#8217;re making stuff up. Which okay&#8230; You STILL need to do research even if you&#8217;re making stuff up to keep things logical in your story.<\/p>\n<p>My current research:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading comics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Soon-I-Will-Invincible-Vintage\/dp\/0307279863\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1255763844&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Soon I Will be Invincible<\/a> by Austin Grossman<\/li>\n<li>My own experience<\/li>\n<li>Talking to various superheroes and villains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeaah, I don&#8217;t think not many people can do the last one on that point there. On the novel there in the list, I was checking out how a superhero comic typed story could be written in novel form. Actually, I&#8217;ve read quite a few books with superheroes in them but I thought that one would be different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"609\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/17\/into-the-research\/alexsg2007\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/alexsg2007.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"673,456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D70&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1184538278&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;22&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DC Team 2007\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/alexsg2007.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-609 aligncenter\" title=\"DC Team 2007 picture by Alex01SG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/alexsg2007-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"DC Team 2007\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/alexsg2007-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/alexsg2007.jpg 673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Too hot to handle (photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/alex01sg.multiply.com\" target=\"_blank\">Alex01SG<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Right, talking to various superheroes and villains for me&#8230; Eh, I don&#8217;t have to do that much since I&#8217;ve talked to them before. This book should be fun to do since I&#8217;ll be able to get pissy on some points like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Why those dark avenger types only hang out at night in their outfits instead of the day? It&#8217;s cause that&#8217;s it can be so freaking hot if they fight crime in the sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>Seriouslyyyy.<\/p>\n<p>And having a cape is just a bonus to hide big butts etc, etc. With the research in knowing how their weapons work is a bonus too. In my story, I have a vague plot and it will go something in the lines of the protagonist or aka the heroine of the story will be one of those tailors at a shop. I know what shop it&#8217;ll be too but I wonder if it&#8217;ll be spoilerish to people if I wrote it down. Though, if you&#8217;re still reading this then it might be you&#8217;re curious and wanting to know more! That&#8217;s cool, just know that you&#8217;re gonna be spoilered then.<\/p>\n<p>My vague outlines would go something like this since I have to keep in mind that this is <em>chic-lit<\/em> and knowing your target audience is half the battle even if I have no idea what battle this is going to be.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First person point of view<\/li>\n<li>Age of character could be early twentyish or late teenish<\/li>\n<li>Probably early twentyish according to the plot in mind<\/li>\n<li>Trouble must happen (duh)<\/li>\n<li>Trouble must be fixed (double duh)<\/li>\n<li>Trouble must be fixed with some silliness and logic that makes sense to the character but doesn&#8217;t really make sense to everyone else but it works somehow (very duh but only for chic-lit, there is an art to the method to doing this)<\/li>\n<li>Awesome ending that leaves space for a continuation but not too much to make the reader think that the story hasn&#8217;t got a proper conclusion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"610\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/17\/into-the-research\/ironmanby8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ironmanby8.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,375\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Iron Man and Rogue\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Iron Man can&amp;#8217;t move as easily as Rogue&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ironmanby8.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-610 aligncenter\" title=\"Iron Man and Rogue\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ironmanby8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Iron Man can't move as easily as Rogue\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ironmanby8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ironmanby8.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Iron Man can&#8217;t move as easily as Rogue<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first person P.O.V has both a plus point and minus point. It&#8217;s easier for me to write it though but the only minor point to this is that you can&#8217;t exactly write what happens to other characters since the story will be in &#8220;your&#8221; point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you&#8217;re psychic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But no.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the kind of story I&#8217;m writing. Sorta. Anyway, we know trouble happens cause it&#8217;s called THE PLOT.<\/p>\n<p>The plot for this story as it so happens (it&#8217;s not confirmed since this IS early Oct and I&#8217;ll start writing only in Nov), is going to be about a girl who works in a shop who does replica costumes for fans and people. In reality, it IS the shop that does the costumes for the actual heroes and villains. I&#8217;m not saying any more since then it&#8217;ll be much of a spoiler to know what happens then. Heh, heh, heh. For at the moment with the brief thing I just wrote there, it could be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edna_Mode\" target=\"_blank\">Edna Mode<\/a> from The Incredibles, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Zelinsky\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Zelinsky<\/a> in Marvel comics or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperborea.org\/flash\/gambi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Gambi<\/a> in the DC universe. (See, I <em>did<\/em> do my research!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"611\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/17\/into-the-research\/3829534769_7c12941ab4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/3829534769_7c12941ab4.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,375\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Harley and Ivy bugging Batman\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Bugging heroes is fun! (pic by Tiramisue)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/3829534769_7c12941ab4.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-611 aligncenter\" title=\"Harley and Ivy bugging Batman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/3829534769_7c12941ab4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bugging heroes is fun! (pic by Tiramisue)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/3829534769_7c12941ab4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/3829534769_7c12941ab4.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Batman getting bothered by villains (photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiramisue.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tiramisue<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s it for this post since I&#8217;m still researching. I <em>still<\/em> have to figure out how the heroes and villains are going to work with each other, or rather the dynamics of them in the story with the protagonist. It <em>should<\/em> be really fun writing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I&#8217;m gonna document how I can do 1667 words a day for November. Well, for Nanowrimo, that is. Sure, I can probably write more a day and finish it before the deadline but it&#8217;s just fun that way, you know. Plus, I like seeing a gradual incline on the graph on my account &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/17\/into-the-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Into the research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-stuff","tag-nanowrimo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-9O","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}