How to sex an iguana
And other questions in a writer's search history
Despite the cliche writer’s question of “how to get rid of a dead body”, I don’t believe writers necessarily have a more interesting browser history but I now have “how to sex an iguana” in my search history. I do not have an iguana and have no plans to get one (though I do have a soft spot for beardies).
Yes, I recently asked this question of the interwebs. It has nothing to do with bestiality — I needed to know for a story how to tell if the iguana is the inseminator or the egg layer. Except this was for a giant, iguana-like space lizard … so maybe it’s both. In the end, I decided I didn’t need to answer that question for the story but I now have that in my browser history. Apparently, the answer is either wait until they get busy or something about ‘femoral pores’, in case you’re curious.
Some other random things from my search history:
How long can you survive in a vacuum: not long but it’s potentially possible to survive for a short period of time (warning, that article discusses experiments on animals).
Can no one hear you scream in space: Yes. Well, apparently, it is sometimes possible for sound to travel in space, but we can’t hear it.
Consuming raw blood: Not a lot of info on this one, at least not on sites I want to click through to. Most of the entries on the Wikipedia Blood as food page are cooked.
Evil christmas legends: I wanted to write a Christmas story … with vampires and things that go bump in the night. A Demon of Midwinter has a Christmas cat, though maybe not the Christmas cat.
Okay, I’ve shared. Now what about you — any weird (but safe for work) things in your search history? BTW, the snail sex search was completely mostly unrelated to writing.
Oh, and, if you’d like to read a Bloodborne Christmas love story, it’s up on the Armchair Alien substack.
Writing update
That kind of is my writing update: I continue to work on a interlude short story which happens to have a great, big lizard, not really giant, but bigger than an iguana. It’s fun writing something new and shiny. But after that’s done, it’s on to either book 4 in the scifi series or a spin-off of the urband fantasy — I can’t decide! What should I work on?
Books for your TBR shelf
If you’re looking for something new to read, my Armchair Alien co-conspirator is serializing a new scifi adventure, Hope is the Thing with Feathers. I can vouch for it since I was a beta reader.
Happy Reading!
— CR
Where to find my books
If you’d like to read any of my scifi or urban fantasy books, you can find them at your favourite online retailers. Or you can buy them direct on the Armchair Alien store.
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