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[bluflamingo]

For a story that's ended up being 1400 words, I've looked up tonight:

- How the peace corps works, and what kinds of things people do
- Operational specialties for marine officers
- How people become marine officers
- UC Berkeley housing, courses of study, percentage of male v female students, and whether or not they run an ROTC program
- The date of the first moon landing
- Dates of every moon walk since then

Not to mention the dates of birth of five different actresses and more transcripts than I can shake a stick at. So much more sci-fi fic not requiring the finding of large volumes of random information.

What I have not done, sadly, is written any more of my gen ficathon story, which is annoying, because I'm not exactly stuck, but it's just not going well, even though I'm writing about three of my favourite characters. Feh.

Comments

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

Well...I'm fascinated.

[shoshannagold.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that sounds like a GK story. Unless you've found another set of Marines to write about, which would also be fun! But I hope it's the former, because I am craving new GK fic.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that sounds like a GK story.

Huh, it does, doesn't it? It's actually a stargate Atlantis story, with a mix of marines, doctors and scientists.

GK story is next on my list, as soon as I beat my sga genficathon story into submission. Which may take a while.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the thrilling things I post about :o)

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

Dude, I was being serious! Research is awesomesauce.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Research is awesomesauce

True. It's kind of scary to think of all the things I only know through research for fic. Not that they don't randomly come in useful, of course.