How Far Would You Go?

I’m very squeamish when it comes to knives and blood. I especially don’t like those graphic images CSI is so famous for. So why in the world would I subject myself to viewing an autopsy on You Tube?

Only for research!

Through finger-blocked vision, I watched the first, second and third incision, noting the visceral response my body made. Faint flutter in my belly, cool shiver, nothing dramatic, yet it was all very distrubing. The heaviness in my gut contrasted with the hallowness in my middle and then more heaviness in my chest.

I opted to not watch the folding back on the skin, (just writing about it is getting a visceral reaction in my chest, though my critique partner keeps telling me my character has too much chest action going on 🙂

I stole a peak two more times before the video turned off, thankfully before they went deeper into the autopsy.

Though I am intrigued with the mystery part of forensic science, I really can’t stomach the reality. Neither can my character. And that’s the whole reason I did it!

BTW, 70 more pages until I’m finished with first round edits. And I’ve got a growing list of things I need to add on the next pass. I’m realizing if I had written a nice women’s romance or fun chick lit, the book probably would have been published by now. 🙂 But no, I had to write a complicated mystery with more twists than your intestines (had to through in the autopsy analogy) and way too much stuff I had to research (archaeology, police procedures, doctors, paramedics, universities, etc.)

Maybe my next book I’ll write about something I really know, maybe a nice momlit. And I actually have one started and enough material to finish a series!