Greg Barron (on Writing Novels in Australia)

I once wrote a story set largely around the flight of a B-50 bomber. I purchased and built a hobbyist’s (Airfix) model of the plane. It gave me a better idea of the layout of the machine than any 2D schematic could have done. I did the same thing with a sixteenth century ship, then walked aboard an actual life size replica. If you don’t know how the captain gets from his cabin to the life boats, how can you expect the reader to visualise it?
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Australian political thriller novelist Greg Barron at http://writingnovelsinaustralia.com/2012/12/31/writing-what-you-dont-know-research-for-writing-fiction-by-greg-barron