Christine M. Butler
DO YOUR RESEARCH!
You don't have to write what you know, as the saying goes, but you do have to know what you're writing. If you want to talk about guns, a medical diagnosis, how fast a corpse decomposes, or how long it takes to drive across a certain state - LOOK IT UP! I probably research and fact check no less than 20 things per book I write. It doesn't matter if it's fiction, even fiction is based around the facts we live with day in and day out (most of the time).
You don't have to write what you know, as the saying goes, but you do have to know what you're writing. If you want to talk about guns, a medical diagnosis, how fast a corpse decomposes, or how long it takes to drive across a certain state - LOOK IT UP! I probably research and fact check no less than 20 things per book I write. It doesn't matter if it's fiction, even fiction is based around the facts we live with day in and day out (most of the time).
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