I’m working on my thesis right now, and since I am majorly revising a prior draft, I have been including many more details and fleshing the story out as I go. As a direct result of this slowed down process, I have been doing a lot of research. Tonight, I have searched for and learned more about the following things:

• morphological traits of predatory fish
• fish eyes (and octopus and shark eyes)
• color names of opal variations
• how long it takes for blood to dry or congeal outside of the human body
  • This search resulted in subsequent searches about rigor mortis, which led to further discovery of “lividity” and an understanding of what congealed blood inside the body looks and feels like. (Apparently, it’s like red currant jelly?)
• how far a “league” is
• how far the human eye can perceive a candle flame
  • Fun fact: a league is about 5.5 km, and a human eye can see a candle flame at about the same distance because any further away would drop the flame below the horizon due to the curvature of the earth.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why writers’ search histories are odd.