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Hi, everyone. Welcome. Thank you so much for joining us today for this indie author project expert session, the importance of research for novels and Memoirs with the 2024 indie author project annual contest runner up Michael C. White.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2.0,21.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My name is Nash Steele, and I'm on the Indie Author Project team. Before we get started today, I have just a couple quick notes. Everyone is currently muted, but we would love to hear from you. If you have any questions or comments, you can put those in the chat, or you can use the Q\u0026A section that you'll find on your Zoom control panel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=21.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We'll be monitoring those throughout the session, and we'll have a time for Q\u0026A at the end.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=44.0,51.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Also, this session is being recorded, and we'll be sending out a link to the recording in a few days and posting it to our website as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=51.0,62.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All right. So now that we've gotten those housekeeping items out of the way. I'm really excited to pass it on to our panelists, Michael C. White. Michael is the author of 7 novels, as well as a writing coach and the founder and director of the Fairfield University MFA.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=62.0,79.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you so much for joining us today. We're so excited to have you here, and go ahead and take it away.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=79.0,85.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thanks, Nash. I really appreciate it. Hello, folks. I hope you're going to get something out of this webinar. I've given this webinar in many forms, and it's the first time I've given it as a webinar. And so what I'd suggest to everyone is that you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=85.0,105.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whatever I suggest… whatever I put on the screen, or whatever I say, that you can pick out one or two nuggets that will help you in your own writing. I think that's the most important thing I could say today. Um… Writers use research most obviously in writing about historical fiction. I've written a number of historical novels, and I know how true that is, but they also use writing in writing contemporary fiction and in memoirs. Samuel Johnson, the novelist, poet, essayist.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=105.0,135.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had this to say, a writer will turn over half a library to make one book. Later on, I'll talk about going to libraries and turning over half a library to make one book, and I think that's very true.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=137.0,151.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zora Neal Hurston, the novelist, said, research is formalized curiosity. And if you take one thing away from this workshop, think of that one word, curiosity. And I'll… Pose that in different ways over the next 30 to 35 minutes. Curiosity. And what do I mean by that? Curiosity about your characters, curiosity about your setting, uh, curiosity about the secondary characters, what your characters do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=151.0,181.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You need to be curious about your fictional landscape or your writing landscape, if you're writing a memoir.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=183.0,191.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Important elements about using research in writing fiction and memoir. Research is often cited in terms of accepting the truth of the book. Okay. In other words, you do research so that the reader will read a book and say.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=191.0,208.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This writer really knows what he or she is doing, and that's important. Verisimilitude in a book is crucial. If a writer… if a reader doesn't accept what you're saying, your book is maybe finished.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=208.0,223.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"However, effective research can also place the writer in their fictional landscape or their writing landscape. And I'll keep coming back that again. If you look at this curiosity thing that I mentioned before, your curiosity as a writer about your writing landscape.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=223.0,241.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about your characters, about your setting, about what they do, what your characters do for a job or for their advocation is important. And research will also help you, the writer, and I'll… during the next 30 minutes, I hope to convince you of that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=241.0,258.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It can open up windows to the writer into their characters, their plot, and their setting, and I'll give you several specific examples about that during this webinar. And finally, characters are developed by what they do or say, by their vocations, by their avocations. For instance, if you're writing about a lawyer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=258.0,277.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A lawyer is not just something you plunk down and say, my character's a lawyer, a lawyer does lawy things, goes to court and tries cases, or if you're writing about a doctor, um, you know, they have to do things. If you're writing about a carpenter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=277.0,292.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I'll talk about that more in a moment as well regarding my latest novel. Some caveats before I begin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=292.0,301.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't mean this to be a bio of me. However, it's what I've learned over 50 years of writing fiction, the kinds of research I did for both my fiction and my nonfiction, what I had to go through. I was talking to Nash before that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=301.0,320.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I wish I had taken a workshop like this before because it would save me years of doing the kinds of research on my own and stumbling around and not knowing what to do, how to do it, where to go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=320.0,334.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So this is what I've learned over 40 years from my teaching, from my writing, and I hope you can take something from it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=334.0,343.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And while most of my examples will be from fiction, much of this also applies to memoirs as well. I do a lot of work with writers who are writing memoirs, and one of the things I'll often tell them is to, have you done research about that subject or what kind of car?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=343.0,361.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You drove… your family drove in 1978, and things like that, and that can open up a whole world for you as a writer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=361.0,374.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you're like me, research began as drudgery, pure drudgery, both in high school and college and in grad school, when I would do research, it was painful for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=374.0,388.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I found that going to the library and looking stuff up, and then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=388.0,394.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pouring it into my essay or my paper, uh, was not very… I mean, I did it, and I did it well, I'm sure, like a lot of you, you've gotten good at doing research as writers, um, but I didn't find the use of it. I didn't see the importance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=394.0,409.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"importance of research for what I was doing as a fiction writer. And also, like a lot of writers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=409.0,415.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I accepted at face value the old dictum to write about what you know, and I would ask you that right now. How many people are listening in would say, that's what I've been told, that's what I've heard? You have to know something about your characters, your world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=415.0,431.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Before you can write about it, and so that's why other writers would tell them, write about what you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=431.0,437.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so when I began to write, given those two things, my hatred of.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=437.0,441.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of doing research and also the pointlessness of doing research for my own creative work, my novels and short stories, I began to write. I felt I didn't need research, so I stuck to writing what I knew about. And by the way, when we say write about what you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=441.0,459.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Beginning writers… Often write fiction that's thinly disguised memoir. They write about their families, they write about their… their growing up, their childhood.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=459.0,470.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They to write about things that happened to them or to loved ones, or to friends and neighbors, and so they don't have to do a lot of research.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=470.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then, like, a bolt of lightning, it hit me. 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If you take a look on the left here, there's a magazine called Permafrost, and it was one of my first published stories.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=561.0,575.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it appeared in this journal from Alaska. And I was very proud of it because it was the first time I used extensive research in my fiction. 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But I had problems, because I never climbed a telephone pole, I never worked with electricity. The best I know about electricity, and my father was a carpenter, is you plug in the… your cord into an outlet, and that's electricity. That's about as far as I wanted to go, and as far as I wanted to know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=617.0,637.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was teaching in a university in Western North Carolina in the mountains. This was before the internet. This was in the late 70s, early 1980s. 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They thought that I may be doing an expose about them, something terrible about them. And I finally convinced them, I'm a fiction writer. I just want to write a short story. And I wanted to get my facts and material right. So I was doing them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=666.0,686.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justice. After laughing at the professor who wanted to follow them around, they invited me. 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And I also, besides the technical aspect.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=732.0,745.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I learned aspects about their relationship, how they interacted with each other, and it came out… this is a published story, uh, you don't have to do it now, but if you get a chance, take a look at some of the language in this passage right here that I took.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=745.0,762.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from the published story. There's some technical information, but there's also information about people, how they acted with each other. These are… this job was a very dangerous job, and these men were very brave, and sometimes they were also, um, very wild.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=762.0,779.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They did careless things. And so I wanted to capture that. 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And I read a marvelous memoir about a doctor who worked, I forget what his main job as a doctor was, but it was in Maine, and part-time he worked as a medical examiner, and he went out to murders and.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=939.0,959.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"accidents and so on, and I would take notes as I read that memoir. In my upcoming novel, Skunktown, I hope you don't think it's a… it's a bad-smelling novel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=959.0,973.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But Skunktown, I had to learn about… it's set in New England in the 1960s, and it's about racism in a small hamlet of that town. 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I came across this watching TV, a History Channel, I think it was.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1011.0,1027.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"20 years ago. And I loosely based my research on and my story on an actual female sniper called Lumila Pavlochenko. She killed 306 Germans. Can you imagine that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1027.0,1042.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Anyway, I loosely based my story on her, and so I had to find out stuff about Soviet female snipers in World War II. I found out there were thousands of them. I watched the YouTube, I read things, I read stuff about… the woman I based my story on, she came to America, and that's the second part of the novel, and she was interviewed, she met with Eleanor Roosevelt, so I had to find out stuff about Eleanor Roosevelt.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1042.0,1071.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So I read tons of stuff, both books, newspapers, and anything I can get my hands on about female snipers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1071.0,1081.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And about which he did, so I could then use it as my launching pad for my own fictional character. And research can help you overcome writer's block. And let me explain that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1081.0,1097.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I've been asked several times, do you ever get writer's block? And I said, no, I write badly sometimes. Sometimes it takes me several days to get through a passage. Sometimes I don't like doing writing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1097.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I've never had a writer's block, and one of the reasons why is that even if I'm not inspired on a particular day, or I'm struggling, I can always do some research. I can look something up and find more information about my characters, and.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1110.0,1124.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What it does for me, it primes the pump.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1124.0,1127.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that research on my character or on the background to my character or the setting of my character, I can find information. I can go into my novel and plug in new information, and it gives me a new sense of my character. Again, we're going back to curiosity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1127.0,1144.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that the research we want to do, we want to be curious about our characters. And if you start there, and you let that guide you, the rest is just finding what you need to know and finding out how to get it. And I'll say a few more things about that in a moment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1144.0,1159.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Some great sources, and I might as well… I didn't list this one, but of course, if I avoided it, it would be the elephant in the room is AI. Ai is both… been very helpful to me as a writer doing research, but it also has given me some false starts, if you will.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1159.0,1179.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"To begin with, over in the left, top left is newspapers.com. It covers all of the 20th century and the 21st century. It is one of the most helpful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1179.0,1193.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sources for research I've ever found. I think it costs $7.99 a month. I'm a subscriber to it, because I can always find information that I need or want to use in my novels, whether they're contemporary or historical.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1193.0,1210.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And newspapers.com gives you a different view of your characters and your situation, whether it's contemporary or whether it's historical.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1210.0,1220.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A newspaper will give you a moment in time. 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I know a lot of people, um, looked down and knows that Wikipedia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1235.0,1254.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And as a former academic as well as a writer, Wikipedia is not always that reliable, but it's a great place to start. 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Atimuline is a good place to look, Google Scholar. Uh, Atlas Obscurai, I haven't used that very much, but I have used Google Maps.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1311.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Google Maps is great for, uh, one who wants to do some research about a place, um, and yet you can't get there because it's too expensive, or you don't have the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1320.0,1333.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you can go on Google Maps and you can get a 360 degree picture of what a street or a town might look like. I've done that just now. My new novel is set in Maine once again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1333.0,1348.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I have been up there many, many times for my previous novel, but I… got on Google Maps and did the 360 degrees, and I was able to see a town that I wanted to go to. And finally, YouTube. Again, that's also a source that someone might not think highly of, but I've used it again and again and again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1348.0,1371.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For seeing how things are done, I'm going to get back. I'm going to come back to that when I talk about another example. Live and breathe your story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1371.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I think the basic thing to ask is this. When you're writing about a character, whether contemporary or historical, whether nonfiction or fiction, and ask yourself this, what does my character know that I don't?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1380.0,1394.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And if you start there, that goes back to the curiosity thing. If my character knows something, and I don't, I need to find out about it. If it's a historical novel, find out what people of the era ate, what they wore, how they spoke, how they traveled.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1394.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In one of my novels, The Garden of Martyrs, it was set in the early part of the 19th century, and it took place in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Western Mass, and I had to have a priest, my main character, travel from Boston to Northampton.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1410.0,1427.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And at that time, it was a pretty rocky road, and I found out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1427.0,1431.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How long it took them to go and who, how big it was and who they could talk to while they were traveling and when did they stop and how did they eat and so on and so forth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1431.0,1443.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I read both fiction and nonfiction for background information. So when I do research, I don't make a distinction between fiction, even though I'm writing a novel, or nonfiction. It all gives me information about my characters and my setting, and my time, and my place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1443.0,1458.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'll even read bad fiction, uh, that often gives me a sense of language or character.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1458.0,1465.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And research can provide facts and a framework for living in your writing landscape. Again, I think about writing landscape and leaving and breathing your story. And it can provide you, finally, ways of thinking. What do I mean by that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1465.0,1482.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If your character is set in 1850 or 1950, and they do something that's much different than yourself, what do they think? 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You want to feel comfortable with your.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1497.0,1512.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"subject. How do you get other information? There's interviews with subject experts. Find people who know stuff, lawyers, doctors, priests, historians, electricians, okay? There's a lot of people out there who know a lot of things, and they can help you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1512.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Alright, uh, with your research. For my novel, The Blind Side of the Heart, this is about a priest. I have a penchant for writing about priests. I don't know why. I interviewed. It was a priest who may or may not have.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1530.0,1546.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Abused several boys, and may or may not have killed one young boy. It was based on an actual event that happened in Western Massachusetts, where I was living, and I interviewed a pair of judges, a public defender.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1546.0,1561.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I got a lot of information, and they were very, very helpful. I would tell them what I needed to know, and they would give me information about that. I sat in court cases. I sat in a great court case up in Greenville, Massachusetts, and um… A judge sent me there. He said, the courtroom is beautiful. 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And I went there, I sat in on a case that was going out at the time for 3 days, and this is what I'll mention once you start going out to places and talking to people, not just doing book information or book research.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1592.0,1607.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But talking to people in your research, you'll find that you pull a thread and something else will come out, and you'll find more information. And so I ended up setting my case in the Buying Sell of Heart in this particular courtroom in Greenville, Greenville, excuse me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1607.0,1623.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And for my novel The Garden of Martyrs, the one that's set to the left here, it's about a Catholic priest in the early 1800s. I mentioned him before, and I interviewed several Jesuit priests. 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For instance, two Irish immigrants were convicted of a murder, and they were sentenced to death, and the priest who comes from Boston to Northampton is going to visit them in the cell, and he wants to… he wants to listen to their confessions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1639.0,1661.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so I talked to a current Jesuit priest, and how would that be done? And what would, you know, what would a priest coming into a… into a jail cell in Northampton, uh, to listen to the confessions of two Irish Catholics, how would that take place? 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At every university they ever taught at, and every town library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1682.0,1697.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you go in as a writer and say, I'm doing a memoir on this, or I'm doing a book on that, or I'm doing a novel, I'm writing a novel, can you help me? They're more than happy to help you. I was never one of those kids who knew the card catalogs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1697.0,1713.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But what I did know, I did know the librarian, and the librarians are always willing to do interlibrary loans. They'll get you rare books, and for example, my novel The Garden of Martyrs, it's set in 1806. It's in New England about a murder. I spent days at the library in Northampton.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1713.0,1733.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's called the Forbes Library, if anybody's familiar with that part of the country. And I spent days there. I'd get there early in the morning. I'd stay there till late at night. I'd look through microfilm and microfiche. I looked through the stacks, the books, and after 3 days I found some… use some small details that were very helpful, but nothing central. And I passed in the microfilm and microfiche one day, and the librarian said to me, ah, you're writing about the Daly and Halligan trial, aren't you? And I said, yes. He said, of course you've.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1733.0,1763.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You've used the proceedings of the trial, right? And I said, proceedings? He said, yeah, there's a transcript. You've read it, I take it. I said, no, no, I didn't. I've been wasting the last three days reading microfilm. And he says, come with me. And he brought me into his office.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1767.0,1784.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He opened the drawer and handed me a 100-page document that had been copied many times, and he said, that is the proceedings on the trial of Dominic Daly and James Halligan. 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It was a treasure trove.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1799.0,1816.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of information, of research, all there in one piece, and you can start to see some of my circles there, and I read this thing a dozen times, and I used much of it for chapters 3 and 5 of my novel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1816.0,1832.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The Garden of Martyrs. So, just being there at the library, sometimes you'll find other things when you're searching for one thing. Um… All right. Subject experts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1832.0,1845.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"journals, original documents. For instance, my novel, Soul Catcher. It's set in the 1850s, it's about a slave catcher chasing runaway slaves.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1845.0,1856.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And the research took me to, um, of course, fundamental would be runaway slaves and the law of 1850, the Compromise of 1850s. I looked at old newspapers, I looked at runaway slave ads, you'll see the one to your left here. And even though it's a despicable.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1856.0,1872.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"um… period of time with… filled with despicable things as a writer, I needed to know that stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1872.0,1881.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay? And so from the internet, I was able to get pictures of shackles from a dictionary of the period. I was able to cull words and phrases used during the time. That's a… that's a really important thing. If you can get… if you're writing historical, if you can get a dictionary of the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1881.0,1898.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Very, very help, very helpful. Uh, research is there also to give you shape to your plot and depth to your characters. Um… And as I said before, it's important for texture and verisimilitude that you convince your reader that you know what you're talking about, and they can feel it in your writing and your details.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1898.0,1919.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It also helps you develop your plot and deepen your characters.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1919.0,1925.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For example, in my upcoming novel Skunktown, as I said before, it's a story set in New England in 1968. The character is named Lyman. He's a young boy. He confronts racism at that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1925.0,1941.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He also found that there was a KKK rally and a KKK group right in his own town, if you look to the right. One of the pieces of research I was able to get is a reporter in the 60s and 70s, um.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1941.0,1956.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"doing research in the KKK in Connecticut, of all places. I knew very little about it when I began. By the end, I knew a lot about it, and I think that's important to keep in mind for your own place, for your own work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1956.0,1971.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And by the way, again, I want to emphasize, whatever I say today, it has to be relevant to your own writing. If it's not, don't worry about it. But if it is, pursue it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1971.0,1985.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I come finally to a very fun and favorite sort of research for myself, and that's field research. I mentioned it a couple of times earlier in a way, and this is going places, walking the streets, talking to people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=1985.0,2002.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Uh, you want to walk a mile in your character's shoes. Think of it that way. And if you can get to the place where that you're writing about, do it, if it's all possible.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2002.0,2014.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For example, in my novel, um, it was my first novel, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I started, in terms of research. It involves a German World War II POW camp in a very remote.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2014.0,2030.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Part of Maine. I stumbled on this, on this subject, and I became very fascinated. Uh, the prisoners worked as loggers for an American paper company. If you look to the right here, you'll see prisoners, horses.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2030.0,2045.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wagons, uh, they would twitch the logs that they cut out in the woods, bring them to a central spot, and then they would go back to their POW camp. And, um… And I was able to get a lot of information. If you look above that, you see something that says, um…","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2045.0,2063.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Freiburg, Maine, and Subumic POWs. When I went up there, I went to a library, I went out into the field, I looked at where they… Original camp was, it's no longer there, but I could see the posts, and I was able to get pictures of the camp.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2063.0,2079.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And most importantly, two things. I was able to get the name of a supervisor. This is in the early 90s, and he probably has passed away now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2079.0,2091.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was able to get the name of a man who was a supervisor, okay, not a guard, but a supervisor in the camp and worked with the POWs. And he wrote me a five-page, very detailed letter after we talked on the phone about his experience. I was able to pick out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2091.0,2108.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A dozen things in his five-page letter that were not just detailed, but important details. Um, and I made 20 trips up to Maine back and forth, and I met other people who told me things they couldn't wait to tell me about something that had happened in our town.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2108.0,2124.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I think that's important for us to realize that when we do field research, we'll find out other things. We're running out of time here, so I want to just go over a couple things before we stop and ask questions. A picture is worth a thousand words. These two pictures, and the one on the next page.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2124.0,2142.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were fundamental to my writing of A Brother's Blood. On the left here is a group of mostly prisoners of war. I get to see what they use for tools, how they dress, they have a PW on their arm or on their back.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2142.0,2158.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"On the right here, you'll see two guards who are squatting. One is actually holding a baby bear cub, and behind them they're holding kittens or dogs, and those are POWs. And that told me a sense of the relationship, and if you go back to the one, the picture on the left.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2158.0,2175.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"These pictures of these young men who were prisoners, I was able to take several of these and put them in my novel and make characters around what they physically look like. And here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2175.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This picture here was crucial in that I was able to use it as a plot device. The main character in my novel, Libby.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2190.0,2199.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"uses a picture she finds in the basement of the library. I was given this picture. I used it in the same way. She uses it in my novel. She is trying to hunt for someone who knew about the murder.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2199.0,2216.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Or the disappearance of a one germ POW in 1944, and so I would use this picture, she uses this picture as a means of finding who was there and who's still alive, to find out the mystery of the death.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2216.0,2231.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of this young German. And one last thing here in Derwachter, that means the guardian, the prisoners of war in Maine put out their own monthly newsletter, which was also a treasure trove.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2231.0,2247.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of information. Um… And field research is not only for your reader, as I've said, I've been saying over and over again, it's for yourself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2247.0,2257.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'll give you one example. You see this house on the left, on the right here? That's John Brown's farm in upstate New York.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2257.0,2264.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in my novel Soul Catcher, I had the slave running to a enclave of runaway slaves not too far from where John Brown lived, and he was a friend of them. I went to this place, I walked around the grounds, I stood on the other side of the pond, looking at this house.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2264.0,2285.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And just to the right of this house, off outside the picture was a barn.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2285.0,2290.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And when I saw that barn, I said, okay, that's where my runaway slave character is going to come out with a waggy and a wagon and a mule, and he's gonna start, uh, uh, putting manure on the field, and that's where he's going to be caught. As soon as I got that, I started taking notes. When I got home, I wrote that chapter, it was very quick.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2290.0,2311.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Because I had an image in my mind of what it looked like. Another example is a woman I finished… actually, I finished now, but I was working as a writing coach for her memoir. It's a wonderful memoir. And she was, uh, she was born and raised in upstate New York and became a nun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2311.0,2327.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Her research took her to her hometown, to libraries in her hometown. She talked to family, to neighbors, and it really opened up a lot of, particularly relationship things, but also details of the life that she only.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2327.0,2344.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As any of us, partly recalled. Finally, details are important and they're interesting, and they help you as a writer and they provide texture, but they are not the story. I use Hemingway's iceberg theory that you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2344.0,2359.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leave 7 eighths, uh, I forget if the 7 8ths or 8 9ths, but you know what I mean, an iceberg theory. Below the surface, and cut what you don't need. In fact, Hemingway, I came across a quote of his one time, he said, Know enough about your subject so you can leave stuff out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2359.0,2378.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's important. Know enough about your subject so you can leave stuff out, and the reader will get the important things, um, but you'll cut out stuff that you don't need. Finally, cut out unnecessary details, facts, or technical or historical stuff. You're not writing a treatise, you're writing a novel or a memoir.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2378.0,2396.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay, you're not trying to show off like an undergraduate. You're trying to your best to write the… a really good memoir that sounds true, or a novel that sounds true, and you're, um… that's your goal. And the research you do is to help with the… with your writing of it and your knowledge of your characters and their setting, and the curiosity you need that compels you to find this stuff out. And finally.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2396.0,2424.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Um, I want to thank you, and happy writing, and be glad to take some questions if you have some.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2424.0,2434.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you so much, Michael. That was such a great presentation. So interesting and helpful. And I really love to see your journey from going of hating research to now it sounds like you're a pretty big fan and actually really enjoy research. So that's that's really cool to see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2434.0,2453.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We have lots of great compliments in the chat. Sounds like everyone is really… has been enjoying the presentation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2453.0,2461.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we had a few people sharing resources as well, like additional links where you can find, you know, research materials, which is great. Love to see it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2461.0,2473.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm not seeing a ton of questions, so if anyone has questions, please feel free to put them in the chat or in the Q\u0026A section. We do have plenty of time for questions here, so feel free to throw them in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2473.0,2488.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Um, and we do have one question that just came through. How to research subjects that are sensitive and or classified information.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2488.0,2499.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Good question. I would say AI, but I I think AI is often has been and I just learned this over the last year or 2 AI will sometimes cut off the tails of, let's say, the TA.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2499.0,2515.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ILS. The tales of information, so it's not too extreme one way or the other, and give you the happy medium.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2515.0,2524.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think, you know, if I don't quite know what the… what the questioner means, but by sensitive, but if you're… you know, I think people, starting with people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2524.0,2536.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know, the… when I was doing the research in northern Maine, I went up there and, you know, there was still, you know, 40 years later, there was still some.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2536.0,2547.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"unhappy feelings about having a German POW camp in their… in their midst. And I also found out that there were some that were unhappy because some of these prisoners were part of the group that were fighting in Battle of the Bulge, let's say.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2547.0,2562.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and lots of terrible things happened to American soldiers. And I end up using that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2562.0,2568.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But when you talk to when you talk to people, let's say, who are lawyers or doctors, and you're telling them that you're writing a memoir or a novel, oftentimes they'll open up and tell you things, and then you can do other, you know, research.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2568.0,2584.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You know, uh, textual research, if you will.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2584.0,2590.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I hope that helps.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2590.0,2592.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you. Yeah, if we'll see if that answered your question. If not, add a little bit of clarification in the chat, and we'll see. We do have another question as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2592.0,2605.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So this is from Joyce. My question as historian and memoir writer, what can you say about you as a contemporary writer looking at these things from a person writing today for people reading today, but also being there in the setting of the past? Can you talk more about negotiating this?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2605.0,2625.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's a very good question. And that's the key that you're negotiating. We read historical fiction, or let's say a memoir about, you know, or even a biography about somebody to understand the past.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2625.0,2641.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But we… if it leaves out the present, it fails. So if you're writing about a, let's say, Irish anti-Irish feelings in 1805 and 1806, I was writing this novel right when 9/11 happened.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2641.0,2658.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it wasn't a stretch for me to understand the anti-Middle East sentiments that happened after 9-11. I was right in the midst of writing the anti-Irish Catholic fervor in America in those days, up through almost all of the 19th century.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2658.0,2677.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so when you're writing about something in the past, you have to get the past right. That's number one. But you also have to make it relevant for writers in the 20, for readers in the 21st century. And that sort of goes back to the fundamental kinds of things like.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2677.0,2693.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Love and hate and revenge and and success and and yearning and all of the things of family values, the losing of a father, losing of a mother, um… I think if you get those things right, and you get the details historically right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2693.0,2710.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then you'll speak to you'll enlighten us about the past, but it'll be relevant to the present. I hope that getting back to the last question, too, about sensitivity, writing about something sensitive, my second novel was about a murder, a young boy in Western Massachusetts, near where I was living.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2710.0,2734.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And, um, I based this story on his murder, and I was writing it about 15 miles from where the parents were, and I… I felt very, um… It was it was difficult and when it came out in the newspapers, this book and the connection to the actual event, I felt I felt I had got it right. I felt I had got my facts right and my history right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2734.0,2764.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Um, another question. Um, and lots of things in the chat. Is research different for an ebook than a hard copy published novel, especially considering which graphics and illustrations to use?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2766.0,2782.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, I can't speak to the graphics and illustration, but I would say that an ebook needs the same sort of strong research to make. Of course, of course, certain topics are going to call for more research. Certain topics call for less research. The.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2782.0,2800.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My novel is coming out next year, Skunktown, is, um, loosely disguised, thinly veiled story of my life, at least the father-son relationship. And I didn't have to do as much research there. I did some on the KKK, for instance, and legal issues.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2800.0,2819.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Because there's a murder that happens in the story. But other other stories like the the novel that I wrote about a slave catcher or a novel I wrote about World War II, I had to do a lot of research, and so whether it's an e-book with graphics.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2819.0,2835.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or not, I think you have to get the story right, and you have to try to find the right balance of research. You don't want to write a research paper, you want to write a story, and the research is there to support your story, your characters.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2835.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Their background, their setting, their lives. And if you keep that as your guide, you're writing a story about people, whether it's a memoir or a short story, or a novel, you're writing a story about people, and the research is there to help you as a writer understand your characters.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2850.0,2870.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Understand their background, understand their setting, their thinking, way of thinking. Um, put in enough so that you convince your reader of that, and convince yourself, but you might need to cut some of the research. I know in the novel that I mentioned, um.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2870.0,2886.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a beautiful assassin about the female sniper. I was so enamored by doing research, I found all sorts of stuff, and I said, oh, this is great, and this is great, and this is great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2886.0,2896.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But as I said in the last part of my talk, sometimes you get a cut. What I found, my novel bloomed up by 150 pages, and I had to cut a lot that didn't add to the story. It was just, you know, I was showing off.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2896.0,2916.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That seems like a hard thing to balance between wanting to include enough research to make sure that it's realistic and feels real, but not overwhelming the reader at the same time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2916.0,2927.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It is, and it's a delicate balance. And I have the same difficulty. I like to write a lot of dialogue, and one of the things I find myself doing is cutting dialogue too much. I love dialogue, because it really explains people and relationship between people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2927.0,2944.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But if we get too much, you're taking us away from the story. The same thing with research. You want to feel… I think you want to do a lot of research at the beginning so that you know your field, you know your fictional or writing landscape.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2944.0,2960.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And you feel comfortable, you feel comfortable beginning. And… but I don't just do my research up front and then write my novel. I research almost every day. If I'm in the novel that's coming out next year, my father was a carpenter, and I was writing a story based on him and me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2960.0,2977.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"working as his helper, I went a thousand times to his work sites, but I had to do research to find out what I had forgotten. And, um, and it is a… A tricky balance, but remember that you're telling a story. Just try to keep that in mind. You're telling a story. If the research is not helping to tell that story, cut it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=2977.0,3003.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Another question from the chat. Do you have a fact checker for your work?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3003.0,3009.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't use AI. Will I come to that at some point? Maybe my editors at HarperCowns or St. Martin's, or for the one next year, Regal House Publishing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3009.0,3024.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They've helped me check some effects, but I don't use AI as a fact checker. Will I come to that at some point? Again, maybe. But right now I try to go over my facts a number of times, and I take… Copious notes, especially when I'm starting a novel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3024.0,3046.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But by the time I finished the novel, I will look back at those notes, and just make sure I got the date, or the time, or the amount right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3046.0,3059.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you. Is there any recommendation for contacting the CIA and FBI for research? Do I need to get security clearance first?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3059.0,3070.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know, especially, especially now. I would say if you can get… if you can talk to one person who is an FBI or CIA, you know, a contact of a contact or a friend of a friend, for me, that would be the best way to do it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3070.0,3089.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm not fully versed in contacting the FBI. I have.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3089.0,3094.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Talked to lots of police and lots of people in prisons, um, and, you know, I've done that, but I haven't, I haven't, um… talk to the or had a chance to or need to, I should say, the CIA or FBI. But if you get that, please send it on. I'd love to hear how you made some headway.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3094.0,3121.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We have a few more questions, so we'll try to get through these while we have time. In writing a memoir. Can you discuss legal issues with including direct quotes from sources?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3121.0,3135.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay, um, I just had a former student. that I worked on with his memoir for a long time. He's a wonderful student. He wrote a wonderful memoir.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3135.0,3146.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But the two things I warned them about early on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3146.0,3149.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was, uh, saying something derogatory about a colleague or, you know, in a business situation, or saying something about a loved one that may get you in trouble.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3149.0,3161.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In terms of quoting for a memoir, one of the things I say is that, you know, if you are.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3161.0,3170.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Quoting somebody alive, you know, just show them the quote that you have. And as far as, you know, using quotes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3170.0,3179.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Um, factual quotes, if you have something that's quoted from a particular source, then you can always cite the source in your acknowledgement page, or your bibliography, or in your footnotes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3179.0,3197.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Um, have you ever talked to a pastor who did their first funeral service, say, for a trial?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3197.0,3204.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, what a wonderful, um… What a wonderful, not wonderful, but what a meaty kind of topic that would be. No, I haven't done that, but I've talked to people who've lost people and lost loved ones.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3204.0,3222.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And, uh, had to speak about them. I would think that would be a really interesting thing to write about as somebody writing a memoir. Um… Yeah, you know, I'm working. I have worked in the past with people who have, you know, had serious mental illness or serious loss recently, and they're trying to write about it. It's very difficult.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3222.0,3251.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Um, we have another comment from someone. Thank you so much, Michael. Your presentation was very helpful and quite interesting. The photos were a nice touch to bring your points home. Are any of your novels thrillers?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3251.0,3265.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, the first one, The Brother's Blood. was a finalist, uh, in the debut novel for one of the.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3265.0,3279.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mystery Awards, okay? And, um, the first 3 novels are literary mysteries.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3279.0,3288.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We do have time for probably one or two more questions. If anyone wants to put any last questions in the chat.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3288.0,3296.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Um, I have a question. I feel like you, um, it sounds like you're really good at finding real life people to talk to who are, you know, in the different fields that you're researching. So I was kind of curious, um, how you find those people, and like, do you just.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3296.0,3313.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"reach out, like, send them an email, like, what's your process for contacting these different people?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3313.0,3319.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I would say that my answer to this would sum up my entire talk today, and it's a good one, and it's an important one. Um… By getting out there in the field at libraries, in the field where something happened, literally in the field, or on the streets of a town, or talking to somebody who experienced it or saw it or.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3319.0,3342.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was part of it. Once you start talking to them, other things will happen. Or once you start to do re… I'll give you an example, very, very brief. My first novel, Brother's Blood, about the POW camp in Northern Maine.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3342.0,3357.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I tried, this is before the internet, I tried my damnedest to find the information at first, and I couldn't. And finally, I got one article in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3357.0,3372.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It came out of New England, and um… and once I got that article, I got the author, I looked up the author, and again, this is well before the internet, which have made this much easier. Uh, I called the author, who wrote this article about this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3372.0,3387.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POW camp, not in Maine, but actually in New Hampshire. But it was similar enough. I found his number, he was from South Carolina, and I said, hey, I read your really great piece about the POW camp in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3387.0,3403.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In New Hampshire, I'm writing about one… a novel about one in Maine. Can we talk? And he just started just telling me things. He said, did you check this? Did you check that? Call this person.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3403.0,3415.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that was getting the initial string and I started pulling and pulling and pulling, and I got other things. And once you do that, I mean, if you start with just some research, get out there, get on… well, not on… you can do it online now, but get to a library where they have special collections.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3415.0,3431.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Go here, go there, talk to this one, and if they don't know much, can they recommend somebody? And you go to that person, and suddenly you have a lot of information, a lot of relevance. You may find that the first 3 or 4 or a dozen contacts won't be very helpful to you in your project.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3431.0,3447.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But by the end of it, you'll find enough so that you can start to write your book. And remember, you don't do just the research at the beginning. It's almost day-to-day, or every other day, you're looking up something. And now we have the ability to do that from our.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3447.0,3462.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Our study, uh, with the internet. And with those 8 or 9 different, uh, areas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3462.0,3469.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know, like, newspapers.com or JSTOR, or…","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3469.0,3477.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's so great. Thank you. That is all the time we have for questions. Thank you so much for answering all of these questions and being so helpful. So appreciative to have you on here today. This was such a fantastic presentation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3477.0,3493.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And as we can tell from everyone in the chat, it's been so helpful for everyone. So we really, really appreciate you being here today. Do you have any last thoughts you want to share, Michael, before we go?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3493.0,3503.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, I'll just say, thank you for having me. And Indy is a great place to to to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3503.0,3513.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"find information and to find support and find a community of writers. As far as research, um, just start digging. You know, you're curious about your subject, you're curious about your characters, dig.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3513.0,3529.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I hope I provided at least 1 or 2 things to everybody that listened today. Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3529.0,3536.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you so much, Michael, and thank you everyone for being here today. A few quick reminders before we go. You'll receive a link to the recording of this session in a few days, and we'll also post the recording on our website, so you can find it with there as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3536.0,3553.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you'd like to learn more about the Indie Author Project, you can visit indieauthorproject.com. Keep an eye out for upcoming expert sessions. We do one every other month, so the next one will be in May. It's an indie author project 101. You can learn all the facts on joining and participating in the Indie Author Project.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3553.0,3573.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that is it. Thanks, everyone. I hope you have a great rest of your day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3573.0,3576.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881/transcript/92396/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thanks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3577/collection_resources/168716/file/306881#t=3576.0,3583.0"}]}]}]}