Category Archives: research process

Write What You Don’t Know

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Lynne • 4 Comments

Everyone’s heard the line, “Write about what you know.” If I only wrote about what I know, I’d have run dry years ago. It’s learning a subject that I’ve stumbled on and become fascinated with, and discovering how it fits with a story idea in my head that keeps me at it. So my obsession with Diana’s chickens is surely leading… Continue Reading

Back To Details: Naming The Wilderness

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Lynne • 1 Comment

One thing I’ve learned is that most of us are passionate about a couple of things and how much those interests emerge as defining parts of our identities. I don’t know exactly when I fell in love with being able to identify, for example, the wildflowers that right now have turned the forest floor into… Continue Reading

Blame The Weather

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Lynne • 2 Comments

To those readers in winter-affected areas: is the weather making everything feel like extra work to you? It is to me. Just getting dressed is a shivering labor involving long underwear under my jeans, a fleece over my shirt, wool socks as thick as my thumb. Preparing to actually leave the house, say to walk Hannah? … Continue Reading

In The Beginning…Research!

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Lynne • 1 Comment

I’m going to try to make a case that Dr. Mark Fischer of the College of Mt. St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio, is normal, and it’s going to be hard. Working against me is the fact that he’s a brilliant professor of physics. Also a researcher, he teams with eminent colleagues like chemist Dr. Diana… Continue Reading

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Category Archives: research process

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