Any fellow authors out there can probably understand what I mean by just those two words in the blog title. In the process of writing, I find myself wondering certain things and the easiest way to resolve it is to pull up Google. This morning, I went from 'soul collectors' to 'evil voodoo loa (or entities)'. Often, they are searches I'll do at work and I can't help but laugh when I imagine the big bad corporation monitoring what I'm searching for. What would the government think when I'm looking at the layout of certain military bases? Or there was the Google of nuclear radiation and radius. The one about demons and their names.
I wish I could remember some of the subjects I've searched. At the time some of them were pretty questionable! Does it put me into a category of merely insane or the next Unibomber?
When I was writing Happily Never After I spent so much time buried in maps of Savannah, Georgia--a town I'd never been to. I had to find which direction Quinn would walk to get to certain places, where she'd catch the bus to the cemetery. It's one of my favorite parts of writing, the research. Which is kind of funny because I wasn't the biggest fan of school. Most of my bookshelves at home are packed with books on things like Egypt, haunted Savannah, ghost towns, a giant visual encyclopedia of the oceans, even a thick, detailed report on all that went wrong during Hurricane Katrina. It's made for some fascinating reading!
For instance, did you know that in a voodoo (or more accurately spelled as vodou) ceremony, when a person is possessed, it's often referred to as being mounted by the spirit. It took me a few minutes to figure that out. As you can imagine, I had a much different thing in mind! Yeah, my mind dove straight for the gutter, no questions asked.
So, tell me, especially you authors out there, what is the STRANGEST Google search you've ever done?
I wish I could remember some of the subjects I've searched. At the time some of them were pretty questionable! Does it put me into a category of merely insane or the next Unibomber?
When I was writing Happily Never After I spent so much time buried in maps of Savannah, Georgia--a town I'd never been to. I had to find which direction Quinn would walk to get to certain places, where she'd catch the bus to the cemetery. It's one of my favorite parts of writing, the research. Which is kind of funny because I wasn't the biggest fan of school. Most of my bookshelves at home are packed with books on things like Egypt, haunted Savannah, ghost towns, a giant visual encyclopedia of the oceans, even a thick, detailed report on all that went wrong during Hurricane Katrina. It's made for some fascinating reading!
For instance, did you know that in a voodoo (or more accurately spelled as vodou) ceremony, when a person is possessed, it's often referred to as being mounted by the spirit. It took me a few minutes to figure that out. As you can imagine, I had a much different thing in mind! Yeah, my mind dove straight for the gutter, no questions asked.
So, tell me, especially you authors out there, what is the STRANGEST Google search you've ever done?
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