r_scribbles | 30 Days Fic Meme

25 – Music – Do you listen to music while you write? Do you make playlists to get into a certain "mood" to write your fic? Do you need noise in general? Or do you need it completely quiet?
I generally write without music - partly because I find it rather distracting in general & partly because I only get time to write when Alex is asleep & the computer's right under the kids bedroom so I like to keep things as quiet as poss. However, I often get ideas for scenes while listening to music on my MP3 player - generally what I'll do then is listen to that song over & over again while I work the scene out in my head, then write it out later. I have been known to 'act out' certain bits of the scene without realising I'm doing it during this process - very odd looks if I'm out walking!
26 – What is the oddest (or funnest) thing you've had to research for a fic?
I barely used to research at all when I was writing D&DC & Press Gang fic. For TNG fic, most of my research was about technicalities of the Trek universe, but for Cumberholmes & Sherlock and Cabin Pressure fic, I am CONSTANTLY Googling & Wiki-ing.

These are all genuine & just a fraction of what pops up on my Google search bar of things that I've looked up over the last few months for RP/fic purposes.

Age requirement for driving a lorry
airports in massachusetts
all i do is dream of you the whole night through lyrics
azerbaijan airport
amuse bouche
baden-baden
ballerina boots
birtwistle
brett's angry dance
bishop's stortford
bergman filmography
bob holness
camouflage lunch box
cockpit buttons
crocodile clips
columbo dog name
creepy watson
cuban solenodon
cake in the shape of a jumper
drug smuggling laws uk
danish men's names
darwin institute
darjeeling tea calories
dadaism
double slanket
eliza doolittle father
especially for you lyrics
expensive gin brands
english saints
faberge eggs (This is the oddest subject that I've had to do the most detailed research in, of late. I had to find out so much about them for the Cumberholmes egg stealing spree storyline)
famous amnesiac
featherlite condoms
geoffery howe
great yarmouth airport
gremlin william shatner
general synod
how many faberge eggs are there
hugh grant
henry v act 5 scene 2
heroin
how much is the news of the world
icelandic drinks
imran khan
in bruges bell tower
inspector clouseau
jet refuelling in air
killer queen lyrics
kitten in a hat
kes
ketamine
lsd overdose
little dorrit
la traviata
lawyers rates per hour
leamington spa mayor
leigh delamere
league of gentlemen dr chinnery
le figaro
melatonin side effects
monster munch flavours
magdalen college
marmite banned in denmark
medieval torture devices
mannequin movie montage
monte negro
moot point
nancy drew faberge egg
nintendo singing games for wii
nero wolfe
nice pronunciation
orca
patron saint of sobriety
pontoon
president of canada
polyphasic
proms 2011 royal albert hall
peter grimes now comes the great bear
population of london
pashmina
pastis
qatar faberge egg
russo-baltique vodka
rainy days and mondays lyrics
rugby world cup final 2011
roast chicken
roman polanski right handed
ryanair
rhinoplasty
red headed league
riviera is really much queerer
reginald jeeves
sociopath definition
schoenberg
sound as a weapon
shoe parts
st hildegard
succubus
sapphire carat size chart
schrodinger's cat
snuff
strictly come dancing 2011 lineup
sherlock holmes musical
topol
turkeys indigenous
tuesday name origin
truth serum
tibetan language
tom selleck
toxoplasmosis
upright piano brands
versace
vatican palace
what does heroin smell like
wiltshire
wokingham
when did queen disband
wind beneath my wings
yakuza