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Now, IWSG hosts have changed up the format in an effort to make it more fun and interactive.Every month, they will announce a question that members can answer in their IWSG Day post. These questions may prompt you to share advice, insight, a personal experience or story. Include your answer to the question in your IWSG post or let it inspire your post if you are struggling with something to say.
Don’t forget to visit others that day to see their answers. Want to join, or learn more? Visit our - Sign-up List.
NOVEMBER QUESTION: What's the strangest thing you've ever googled in researching a story?
MY ANSWER: That would have to be "ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society. Synonyms: hara-kiri, harakiri, seppuku Type of: self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide, the act of killing yourself". I did some research on these ideas when I was writing my short story "WIN". I only briefly mentioned a similar event in the story, but I can only imagine what others might think of writers if they see our search histories ;-)
How about you? What's the strangest thing you've ever googled in researching a story?
How about you? What's the strangest thing you've ever googled in researching a story?
7 comments:
Ha! Yeah, I think my most disturbing Google searches are also about violent things.
I remember your story in the IWSG anthology. That's an interesting topic to research.
Whoa! I love your research topics.
Teresa
I have researched a lot of weird, gross, and questionable things, but I'm not sure I'd be able to research hara-kiri. There's something about that tradition that bothers me. Actually, it's everything about it. lol
Couldn’t imagine researching that - far too squeamish 🤭 Very brave.
I admire you for researching those topics. Not sure I could.
This can seem like it's counter productive, satta king
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