bloody heck.

[swan_tower]

When I don't know a fact for this novel, I can make it up, within the limits of what I do know. So, for example, I don't actually know which palace Elizabeth was living in during April 1590. But I know St. James' was a royal palace, and that various other palaces were usually occupied in the summer or autumn or winter, so I can put her in St. James' that spring and be content.

My problem is that, once I learn a fact, I can't make myself ignore it.

The solution to this ought to be for me to stop researching. If I hadn't dug through my books for more detailed information on Elizabeth's coronation procession, I never would have found a reference to a text which some kind soul (hah) put online which lets me know exactly the route she took, and therefore I wouldn't know she never went near Candlewick Street, and therefore the flashback scene I had in mind that requires her to be there during her coronation procession would be just fine and dandy in my mind.

But now I know. And I can't make myself ignore her real processional route just because I want her to pass by a certain significant half-buried rock on Candlewick Street.

<grumble mutter hmpf>

Okay, fine. I'll work this differently. But my life really would be easier if I could either stop researching, or ignore what I read. (But then what would be the point of reading it?)

Comments

[unforth.livejournal.com]

If you can't move the Queen, can you move the rock?

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Nope. It doesn't get moved until 1749 or thereabouts -- I'd have to go check the exact date.

[unforth.livejournal.com]

Damn. That's a pity. :( How about visions of the rock? Or similar devices? Might they help?

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

No, I've just changed the nature of what's going on with the rock, so Elizabeth doesn't have to be there for the thing that's happening to work.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Remember, Clio's on your side, really she is. It may not feel like it, but it'll work out.
Besides, your research badassery is mighty.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it may be better this way regardless; it's entirely possible the scene's more dramatic with the workaround I've had to create.