Researched to bits

Tonight I finished the research for my fifth novel. Phew!

In a sense, that was the easy part, because there’s no personal risk in doing research. And yet, there’s always this sense of needing to earn the right to write about the topic, which just gets deeper and deeper the more details you discover.

That notion is garbage, though, creatively speaking, because at a certain point — the point I’m at now — I have to take a leap and just make something up.