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I always fall into this trap. Really, if you want to make your novel convincing, you should go where your research takes you. But instead, I usually find myself trying to make my research follow where I want the novel to go. Partly this is because I can't hold huge amounts of information in my brain for long periods of time. I thus have to do a lot of the research at the point of writing, so I often find myself spending an afternoon scrabbling around on the internet, trying t