Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Writers (and everyone else): use the research resources that are available. And extend them.

Mark this one under the non-existent tag of #a-writing-basic-that-I-feel-compelled-to-write-about-just-for-the-record or something like that.

Writers: Google stuff before you write. Google stuff while you are writing. Google stuff after you have finished writing.

This is not a paid commercial for Google. (Does Google pay for stuff like this? Where? Where is my money?)

Want to write about someone who lived in rural Iowa in the 1950s? Google will point you to things that explain how that was. Want to write about earned value project management? Same answer. Want to see if your description of sine cosine and tangent are correct? Same answer.

Some writers haven’t heard this before. Hence, the long nonsensical tag in the first paragraph.

All kidding and ranting aside. Use the research resources that are available. Extend those resources. Google for people who know about rural life in Iowa in the 1950s. Then go find those people, buy them lunch, and talk to them. Now you are the expert and people will find your writings when they Google “rural life in Iowa in the 1950s.”