Just Browsing with Jan Edwards
I have written horror and crime for some years now and I do have a reasonable library of books to fall back on but sometimes those little details need to be checked, and it is so easy to do that online. It occurred to me this week, however, that the browsing history of the average writer must ring bells somewhere on some watcher-server in some secret place. It goes as no surprise to those who know me that I own up to being a compulsive researcher, spending hours looking into small details that are a sentence – nay half a sentence. Now on occasion that could be classed as classic displacement activity - but then again it never hurts to check. In a recent read the female protagonist catches her skirt on the mistletoe. That sentence pulled me up sharp. Was she tiptoeing through the tree tops? Not that I could see. A quick search confirmed that mistletoe varieties native to the UK are to be found growing on trees. A minor p...