WRITING & PUBLISHING

How to Manage Research Rapture

When facts threaten to overwhelm your fiction

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I once heard the late novelist Oakley Hall describe “research rapture” as an occupational hazard of fiction writing — one that too often consumes both writers and their work. I knew precisely what he meant. It’s easy for me to get so enthralled in the hunt for details about…