Sky on Fire Blog Tour!
I am so pleased to welcome Emmy Laybourne back to Squeaky Books! She was here last year for the Squeaky Books Birthday Bash and I love having her back! Check out her pretty awesome guest post, and then enter to win copies of her books!
Emmy Laybourne:
Writers Googling Weirdness
It’s such a joy to be back here on Squeaky Books to kick off the Blog Tour for Sky On Fire!
One of the best things about being a writer is the strange and fascinating things you learn while doing research! While writing the MONUMENT 14 series, I’ve learned about Thermobaric bombs, the intricacies of Google Maps, field methods for purifying drinking water, and I’ve basically memorized the layout of the dorms at the University of Missouri at Columbia. (They will show up in Book Three: Savage Drift!)
Without giving you any plot spoilers, I thought that I’d show you a list of the things I googled while writing SKY ON FIRE.
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When you know that MONUMENT 14 is about fourteen kids from Monument, CO who take shelter in a superstore while civilization collapses outside the gates and that the second book in the series, SKY ON FIRE, follows two groups of these kids, as one group tries to survive inside the store while the other braves a violent and dangerous landscape in a battered school-bus, some of these questions take on a sinister significance!
The 8 Weirdest Things I Googled While Writing SKY ON FIRE
- Can you put sleeping pills into soup?
- Air force slang for “girl.” Air Force slang for “injured person.”
- How can I set a dislocated shoulder by myself.
- Do they make battery powered chainsaws?
- What’s it called when you throw up from working out too hard?
- Ingredients of Kingsford Lighter fluid?
- What’s the Mexican slang for testicles?
- Can someone actually use a grappling hook to climb a building?
Now the question goes to you! What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever googled when writing? I’d really love to know...
Thanks to Enna and Squeaky Books. Tomorrow my book tour will head over to Reading Teen. Join me there for an exclusive interview. And please keep in touch with me at www.emmylaybourne.com, on Facebook at the Monument 14 Fan page or on the Twitter @emmylaybourne.
Giveaway time!!
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There is a soda with the color of urine ... and only if you have a good eye you can differentiate.. so i googled how to diffenretiate
ReplyDeleteI do not want to anyone mess with my drink
I once googled google
ReplyDeleteWhile working on a story, I Googled: How to kill someone with a toothbrush...interesting results to say the least.
ReplyDeleteWriting a short story I once googled "how to dissolve a body with household chemicals". Pretty sure I'm on a government list somewhere now!
ReplyDeleteI once googled the horse chopping blade known as the zanbato....
ReplyDeleteMost effective non-tracable poison;))
ReplyDeleteThank you:))
What happens internally when someone is struck by a bolt of electricity
ReplyDeleteWhen the zombie apocalypse comes is the weirdest I have googled.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Those are very weird things, hehe. I ink the weirdest thing I ever googled was 'how to eat broccoli without throwing up'. I really hated broccoli. Ewwww.
ReplyDeleteI googled an item, I can't remember what it was but my friend had posted "google such and such". Wished I had never done that...
ReplyDelete"What happens if you try to live amongst bears"
ReplyDeleteThere were no accurate results, presumably because anyone who's been successful in the endeavor has no access to a computer.
What do prisons do with deceased prisoners?
ReplyDeleteHow fast the earth would need to spin to fling us off of it.
ReplyDeleteThat would have to be the weirdest thing i have googled.
I haven't had to google anything too strange yet, I am sure it will come up at some point ... now motivated to keep a list. I love lists.
ReplyDeleteLOL I love seeing the weird things people google! I just googled about Chateau Gaillard because I wanted to know if was really invaded by someone who climbed up the toilet shoot. IT WAS :). That little story was mentioned in the book I'm reading now - The Infinity Ring #2.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little I googled if you could get AIDS from slapping a mosquito and its blood getting on you..lol
ReplyDelete"Is it bad to hold your pee?" Is the weirdest thing I've googled.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway!
Weirdest thing while writing would be 'what would happen if the moon exploded'.
ReplyDeleteThe weirdest thing I've googled is "How will girls deal with their periods after tampons and pads run out while trying to survive an apocalypse?"
ReplyDeleteI did not find my answer.
Thanks for the Giveaway!
weirdest thing I googled before is can you lose ur virginity from riding a horse? and it was prestty intresting was it said.
ReplyDeletepretty cool giveaway
Here are two searches I made that relate to a story I was writing:
ReplyDelete- if it was possible to do a fetal transplants.
- what breed of do drools the most.
I think it is: what to do when there's a zombie apocalypse
ReplyDeleteum, i think maybe the weirdest thing I googled was the weather patterns in Prague, Czech Republic.
ReplyDeleteI once googled how to give birth to a baby if you are not in the hospital. It's not necessarily weird per say, but I was preggers and paranoid at the time lol.
ReplyDeleteI actually googled Monument, CO, to see if the population was the same as it is in your book. (It was off by a few thousand...)
ReplyDelete:-)
I've googled some weird medical questions while I've been writing.
ReplyDeleteWeirdest thing I've ever googled? Hmm. Not sure I remember the weirdest, but this ones sort of weird and I remember it. I googled where's the safest place to go during a zombie apocalypse. Someone wrote a very compelling article about why air craft carriers are the way to go!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway!
Hmmm...Weirdest thing I've Goggled? Never really thought about it. But probably when I goggled, How does ice-cream taste with pickles...lol! I was pregnant and craving all kinds of stuff...lol! Thanks for the giveaway! :)
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