How do you turn a mountain of fun facts into a book?
Plan. Sourcing. Assessing the source. ID'ing the goods. Extracting the goods. Processing.
Figuring out your goals with this story. Research will help you do this. Search engines can be useful but not Google with AI switched on (you can switch it off by adding &udm=14 to the end of the results URL)
Look at old professor websites for good stuff, and use Wikipedia for its keywords and footnotes to actual sources. Also hit up libraries and scholars
Also non-academic sources, hobbyists and enthusiasts, they know stuff too and aren't necessarily as in thrall to Great White Men of History
I went to Reimena Yee's masterclass on book research as part of Q-lit Festival! Here are my notes (except pg 5 cos I can only post 4pgs here).
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