I didn’t see a need to update on the novel research project over the weekend. So here’s instead an update for Saturday, Sunday, and today – my days 7-9 (which are days 10-12 in the First Draft in 30 Days program if I’m not mistaken).

As mentioned previously, I picked up several films to watch in addition to my general background research (4 of them). I’ve watched three, and am planning to watch the fourth later on today.

I’m also working on going through the research sources I’ve picked up in books or online resources I’ve bookmarked, and will be pulling out elements that I want to incorporate into the book or character sketches. I’ve done a little bit of this already (and picked up some tid bits that were pretty interesting to learn), so right now it’s just more of the same.

In the book, Day 13 is the last day for research (which would be Day 10 – tomorrow – for me). At this point, I’m quite positive that I’ll be using the extra three days I accumulated earlier by getting through other aspects quickly as extra research days. So at the end of my research period, I should be back in line numerically with the program as it’s laid out in the book.