World Building

[Jabrosky]

I tend to do very little research. For two reasons:

1. I prefer to let my research be guided by my worldbuilding, rather than the other way around. If you do too much research, then I find it squelches creativity because you feel obligated to the facts.

2.I'm kinda lazy.

I can relate to this, but for me it's less about laziness than impatience. It's not necessarily hard to look up relevant information, but I'm typically so eager to begin actually writing the story that I neglect the research.

That said, research can sometimes give you story ideas. For example, my WIP features a dinosaur huntress character who was very loosely inspired by the real "Amazons" or woman warriors of Dahomey in West Africa.