When I was working on an historical novel set in Roman Britain, I kept running into the same problem. I'd want to know some little detail for a particular scene and I'd stop writing and spend hours trying to track it down. Sometimes I was successful, sometimes not, but it really took away from my writing time. A few times, after going to all the work and finding the information, I ended up cutting the scene anyway.
Has anyone else had this problem of getting derailed by some detail that you could probably gloss over until revision time? I don't really think it was procrastination so much as an obsessive/compulsive/perfectionist I-can't-go-on-until-I-get-this-right sort of thing.
BTW, I never completed the aforementioned novel, but it is merely comatose, not dead. The main character is alive and well and living in my head.
Has anyone else had this problem of getting derailed by some detail that you could probably gloss over until revision time? I don't really think it was procrastination so much as an obsessive/compulsive/perfectionist I-can't-go-on-until-I-get-this-right sort of thing.
BTW, I never completed the aforementioned novel, but it is merely comatose, not dead. The main character is alive and well and living in my head.