Getting into writing, I've started noticing a trend with how I write. I just started doing some character outlines, and one was a priestess. I was then like, she is a priestess of <blank>. From there, I realized I didn't have a fully implemented god system. I then went ahead and wrote up my whole system of gods for this world, which took me most of the day and into the next. Another instance was when I wrote about the main character's father being a blacksmith. I then realized I didn't know enough about blacksmithing. After that I spent the rest of the day reading about and watching videos on how to blacksmith, how to make damascan steel and different types of swords.
I'm wondering, do you run into this a lot when you write? You want to say or write about something, but you don't know enough about the subject and then you spend the next couple days just looking into that subject, or writing another aspect of your world. I saw you mention before that the way to be a writer is to study things like history and anthropology, and not literature. I think I'm really starting to see why that is the case.
