I’m working on Lukas and Alan for Goodreads. I’m researching a lot of things I didn’t know I was going to need to know. Rescued Greyhounds. Old cemeteries (and the difference between a cemetery and a churchyard!) Lightning strikes, Chinese Crested dogs, and the Underground Railroad.
It’s a lot of fun. It’s also slow going, because every few paragraphs there’s something to know that I don’t know. (The characters are mostly college students with completely different interests from mine, and I didn’t know a month ago that I’d be writing this, okay? Also, the deadline is a little over a month away.)
So anyway. Things I don’t know. I like learning, so it’s not a problem in any way but time. But when I try to explain to my kid that she should pay attention in Social Studies because one day she’ll wish she remembered more about the Underground Railroad…
Yeah, it doesn’t go over so well.