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{{quote|"''A writer cannot do too much research... though sometimes it is a mistake to try and cram too much of what you learned into your novel. Research gives you a foundation to build on, but in the end it's only the story that matters.''"|'''[[George
Although many talents in fictional media show they [[Did Not Do the Research]], some actually did. In fact, sometimes they learned so much and worked so hard to learn it that it would hardly seem fitting to just not show it off.
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Note that this does not include explicitly educational productions, since they obviously have to be both accurate and explanatory to be effective.
Compare [[Doing It for
Note that this is only as good as the writer makes it. Just because you did the research, doesn't mean it adds to the story. Likewise, sometimes it's better just to make things up. Remember that one of the reasons why the [[Sci Fi Ghetto]] existed in the first place was because Authors of old (and some still do) overused this trope, creating walls of [[Info Dump]] instead of stories. If people wanted to have a lecture in Science, they would grab scientific essays in the first place.
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