John Scalzi: My search history as a professional writer

My search history as a professional writer

INT. FBI Headquarters Agent 1: We got a hit on a guy looking up weapons of mass destruction. SAC: Hit the database and pull his search history *clicking* Agent 1: It says here he was also looking for "domesticated cat breeds" and a "chocolate silk pie recipe" SAC: That's an author, let them go

Heck, i’m just a mild mannered engineer and I once googled “front toward enemy” to figure out what I had just seen on TV. Husband: “tell me you had the VPN on and were in incognito mode” Me: 🙄 “because people planning to use Claymore mines don’t know that?”

Or an editor. • nuclear bomb blast radius* • how to kill somebody instantly with no external evidence of trauma • was there an Italian embassy in Northern Ireland 1960s • do baby platypuses have teeth** • difference clotted v Devon cream ——————- *Oh, look! An interactive map! **Yes

Don’t leave me hanging, was there an Italian embassy - not a consulate? - there in the 1960s, or

There is currently an Honorary Italian Consulate (I have Covid and don’t have the energy to check if it’s capitalized) in Belfast. I emailed them to ask when they first had one. Maybe not in the 1960s.

I have since established that two points the characters walk quickly to are five hours apart.

Also, back to my risk of potential FBI interest, I ascertained that a pipe bomb would not do what he wants it to do and that his character would die as written, and he’s not supposed to. YouTube videos will be cited in the dev edit report.

Hope you recover well and easily. I’ve heard resting is one of the more important things one can do (perhaps after Paxlovid if done timely)

I've thought long and hard about getting one of these www.etsy.com/listing/1576...

I would kind of like to do a terry pratchett and have my hard drive paved, but my browser historty should become a very weird historical monument

"It's for work, I swear."

"I had to get into the mind of a weirdo and the Internet is great for that"

Half that, half "word + thesaurus" or "is there another word for [x]"

A lot of burrito recipes would be lost to the ages, for sure.

Those are all improv, I assure you

(Insert Jennifer Lawrence, “yeah, sure” gif)

Jazz in a tortilla.

The best kind!

Live your life in such a way that when you die, the people tasked with going through your things say "what the actual fuck" at least three times per minute

Ditto editor: ‘how long body decompose seawater’ a recent eg.

Followed by ‘chilli con carne’.

for me it's just directions to the same place, over, and over, and over, and over again

I was googling the correct spelling

Exactly ✍️✍️✍️✍️

yeah. That's my excuse too.

Ive been thinking of compiling my search history results a non-fic book. Still not safe for work.

So say us all

Also why we deny permission to offer personalized ads

as a historian and factchecker, yes

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