Oh my, has researched changed.  Not deep, intensive research where you still need books and tabs and highlighter to mark relevant passages, but those kind of casual pieces of information that you want to add texture to a scene.

I’ve been working on a section today in the urban fantasy where my Álfar (elf) character is waylaid by his mother.  I’m playing with elves as more art deco/Erte figures rather than going the medieval route.  So I wanted to look at some Erte figures.  I wanted to look at Art Deco furniture styles.

So I went to Google, and found everything I wanted.  While I was scrolling through pictures of tables I ran across one I wanted to use and it was described as macassar.  So I Googled that and discovered it’s ebony wood.  So I read about how the heart wood of the ebony tree is the most precious, and how it takes to polish better than any other wood.

If I didn’t have a deadline I could vanish down a rabbit hole of links.