July 30, 2025
If I’m not already on some FBI watch list for my Google searches, then I’m clearly doing something wrong.
So, yesterday I found myself needing to look up quite a bit of information for my current WIP. The same thing happened while working on it today. My search included the following:
- How long does it take to exhume a body? Oh, and AutoCorrect initially changed exhume to consume. I’m sure that didn’t make it worse.
- How hard is it to pull a skeleton from the bottom of a lake?
- How to open a coffin after it’s been sealed.
I’m not sure why I’m suddenly needing to look up so many weird facts, but hey, I want to get it right! I’m a horror author, and I want my gruesome scenes to be accurate. If I have some deranged killer stalking people with a knife, I may have to Google “which is the best knife to cut through human bone” in order to arm my antagonist with the best weapon.
Maybe I should write all of these terms down and release a book entitled “A Horror Author’s Google Search.”
Eric Woods, Author 