{"id":3252,"date":"2022-03-21T18:39:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2022-03-21T22:03:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:03:10","slug":"i-love-the-research-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=3252","title":{"rendered":"I Love the Research: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Two of Sue\u2019s pieces <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I blame Morton S Gray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writer Morton runs a blog where guests are invited to share what they do when they\u2019re not writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I guested recently but couldn\u2019t choose the topic \u2013 apart from the odd dog walk I don\u2019t do a great deal when I\u2019m not writing. To be fair, having written an 80,000 word novel in just over 3 months, there hasn\u2019t been an awful lot of spare time lately!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like a lot of people, my life shrank quite a lot during the various Lockdowns and restrictions. However, when I realised I hadn\u2019t ventured out of the house (and not even into the garden, my excuse being we\u2019d had a really wet spell in Devon) for nearly a week, I needed to do something. It was affecting my mental and physical health. I was being social \u2013 but only on Zoom and social media, and wasn\u2019t getting nearly enough physical exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, when I saw the light catcher making workshop advertised, I booked a last-minute space without giving myself a chance to back out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve known Sue for a while now and have bought quite a few of her pieces. I have two beautiful hearts, an ammonite and a few Christmas decorations. I\u2019ve also bought her work for presents. I absolutely love this art form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My prized ammonite crafted expertly by Sue<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So much so, that when I was casting about for an occupation for my new hero, I made him into a stained glass artist. There are lots of videos on YouTube for research into making glass art and they are useful up to a point but nothing beats doing the thing for gathering research on smells, textures and the total experience<\/em> of what you\u2019re trying to write about. 
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