Here you will find an extensive list of references and research sites to help you flesh out your world and your characters and make them more real. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. To be no longer yourself, but to move in an entire universe of your own creation. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. You have to go after it with a club.
Fiction has to make sense.
Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business.