Have You Ever . . .
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. . . spent nearly two hours taking notes on a subject you are sure will be important for your story (or essay or report or whatever you may be writing), only to learn that this subject is barely brought up in-story or else is focused on even less than you originally believed?
I bring this up because it has recently happened to me while working on Dimension Hoppers. Minor spoilers - the main characters are on a ship and, me lacking knowledge of ships, did a little research in order to know what to call certain parts of ships before I began writing. So I figured this info was going to be fairly important to the current story, but so far I have used very little of the terms I have researched and taken notes on. It doesn't look like I'll get to use them very much, either, based on the direction the story is heading at the moment.
It is frustrating because I feel like I wasted my time taking those notes when I could have been doing something else.
But on the bright side, I am now a little bit more knowledgeable about ships. So I guess there's a good side to everything or something like that.
-TNTOS-
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