Find a story or a novel - How do you know your subject well enough to write about it

If you write for a while, you probably already have one or two feel good writing teachers write or beta readers, what do you know informed. Usually they want about things that you have lived to write. If it is good to write what you know is, you do not experience it to know.
When I visited the University of Nebraska, I knew a writer of science fiction called Cindy, who had published two stories in Analog. One of these stories was from a teacher of writing that I am currently criticized a class. The professor was asked to "write what they know, and obviously he was skeptical that another reality is that Cindy realized something. This story was published her first fiction.
Although some authors excellent novels that grew from their experiences, which is most of us have the research is written. Research can be a bit too far.
During my studies I wrote a story for a writing workshop on a caretaker cleaning the morgue during the night shift. He used to drink and at work is a little drunk, then he believes that one of the bodies landed after a morning autopsy is really alive, but is in a coma. I've never been in a morgue, so I called the Lincoln General Hospital and asked if I could walk, and take a look. A nice guy showed me to the morgue (the first thing I have learned that they do not call like in the morgue at the door, a sign that, "said clinical evaluation), and I went home and wrote the story.
It turned out that one of my classmates had actually been a guard on the night shift at Lincoln General. He thought I worked there at times myself. When I told him that I had to do the research, he said, I was nailed. He asked if she was still the path of the brains ... I said no, only the glasses with pieces of organs in the closet.
"Clinical trial" was my first published story appeared in Pig Press 1983 anthology The New Surrealists.
Arthur Hailey is an example of a writer whose origins were almost fully explored. The author of the bestselling novels such as airport, hotel and Wechsler, Hailey select an industry, he spent months looking in depth and they have a history of this industry. While Hailey was a pilot, he did not have much personal experience (and most of the time, he had no personal experience) matters about which he writes. But no one can ever accuse write Arthur Hailey, about things that he did not know.
Everything you write about, you can fill out the parts you do not know the research. Sometimes you have no experience can be an important part of history.
If you are looking for, use "live" and not "dead" sources as much as you can, or as much as you want. A source of death is something you find in a book, magazine article, a paper, online or wherever it is written to the registry. is an online resource where you get your information by talking with people who have seen you write. In the above examples, Cindy sources used dead - and to get the imagination - the real history of science fiction, Arthur Hailey and I have the living sources of our research.
Make sure your research is thorough. Dean Koontz is another example of a writer who does thorough research. He warned that the perpetrators be sure to make all the details right - for one of his novels, he had the color of the taxis in a Japanese city to be found. Do not assume you know to know something. I thought the slang "Blow" was descriptive of what happens when someone is shot, the force of the bullet hits on the victim. Then I did research for a novel I wrote. It seems that you use a weapon big enough to happen. I mean, a big gun seriously. If you kill someone with a.357 magnum or a shotgun, for instance, he would like a sack of potatoes are not covered by the foot when he a made movie that shall remain nameless.
This is the kind of thing that anyone know somewhere is, and it is annoying, an autograph session and will be - to paraphrase Ray Bradbury - have to say one of your readers, "Dude, at page 227, where Joe is shot and he throws him on the back of the sofa ... "And you say:" Yes, "and he said:" Nope.
To write what you know but not personally experienced it to know. You know what I mean?