Research is key to writing a story. For a story to be authentic, the writer must know about the subject, and in fiction, the characters can only come alive if they are believable and come from something (or someone) in the writer's experience.
This is why writers will claim that there is always a small part of them (or someone they know) in their characters. For those characters to have depth, we have to rely on what we know, or rather who we know for behaviors, thoughts, and physical attributes/gestures.
My research for the story I am currently working on is complicated. It's nothing I can look up online or in a book. All I have is my own experience and the big What Ifs. My imagination is running wild with possibilities for these two characters, and almost all is based on the big What If.
As I'm writing it, I'm employing some help with those what-if scenarios. Discussing them with a friend who is willing to help me explore the what-if very well. I want this story so badly, and I wish I could devise a way to write it more quickly because my ideas are coming much faster than my words.
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