It is vital to not stint on research: readers are very sophisticated today and the hard slog of your writing efforts can be all negated if they spot errors in your work. Even one factual mistake can spoil a reader’s enjoyment of a book and break the bond of trust between writer and reader.
I use a number of research tools for my novels. In terms of time, probably half of the year is devoted to research/planning; the other half is actual writing.
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UK historical novelist Julian Stockwin at http://writinghistoricalnovels.com/2013/01/10/researching-the-thomas-kydd-novels-by-julian-stockwin
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