"I'm Writing a Novel, Officer!" --Weird Things I've Googled For Something I was Writing

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If you take a glance at my web browsing history after I finish a writing session, you are likely to come away with three conclusions:

1. I can’t spell “beaurocracy” (bureaucracy as it turns out), often not even close enough for Google to figure it out.
2. A Good portion of my time “writing” is actually spent on Tumblr, Facebook, and Pandora.
3. I might be planning to commit some pretty God-damned serious murder. 

When you write Scifi or Mysteries, you have to do a surprising amount of research that would normally indicate a severe case of psychopathy. How fast does an object have to move to decapitate someone? How long does it take to bleed out from a stab wound? How does small pox spread? 

Not going to lie, it’s some pretty messed up stuff; The kind of horrifying shit that the blond sorority girl unfortuitously notices moments before getting murdered by her newly acquainted, eccentric, millionaire-lover.

I live in constant fear of the day when the FBI shows up at my door and I have to explain that I only Googled “aerosol poisons” for a chapter I was writing.

All of that said, I thought Jason and I might share a list of some of the most disturbing and incriminating things we’ve Googled while writing and get it on the record that it’s ALL for a novel (right??).

Kyle:

• Calculating blast radiuses
• How does anesthesia work?
• Genetic manipulation using viruses
• How long would it take for an object to fall to earth from orbit?
• How long can a person survive in space without a suit?
• Fast killing poisons
• Dislocating an arm
• How do energy weapons work?
• How do you make an EMP bomb?
• Is it possible to ignite a planet’s atmosphere?
• Names of the Gods of Death
• Weaponized nanite technology
• Creating a black hole
• Can the large hadron collider destroy the universe?
• Anti-matter bombs
• US Military sniper rifles
• Combat knife techniques
• Third degree burns
• Tesla’s Harmonic Weapons
• Implanting a mind-machine interface device

Jason:

• Untraceable poisons
• How much pure nicotine does it take to kill a man?
• City police hierarchies
• The origins of Cerberus (3-headed dog, guardian of Hades)
• Powerful boxing moves

-JK