Really? The Astonishing Side of Research
Photo explanation is at the end of the post Thanks to Skye for another intriguing blog hop challenge! This time, it’s about the research that has been most surprising to us as writers. I love research and have been doing it since the 1970s. Over time, I have evolved several methods of finding what I want. The first and best way is to go to an original source. When I was researching my Depression era book The Powerful Pickle Problem back in the 1980s, I found very little helpful information in books. There was plenty written about experiences in the UK, and plenty about what the political and economic climates were doing, but almost nothing about how country kids in Tasmania might have experienced the times. Luckily, I had original sources. My grandmother and great aunt (born in 1899 ...
