You do it to yourself

[ksmith]

Go ahead. Make protag's Dad a woodworker. Because if you do it right, you'll make the plot hinge on something that requires a lot of research, the checking and rechecking and working out of which will drive you nuttier than the brain research did.

Woodworking. Not carpentry.

And so it goes...

Comments

[nicbemused.livejournal.com]

I see lots of watching the New Yankee Workshop in your future. Also DIY network. (person whose dad is an amateur woodworker)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I think there may be a Time-Life book somewhere in the basement...