- What do you know?
- Explain what you already know about your essential question. Explain why the topic is important to you, and what is motivating your inquiry.
- What understandings and experiences are you bringing with you as you start this research process?
- How have any outside sources informed your understanding of your essential question?
- What don’t you know?
- Why is it important for you to find out more about this question. Tell what you want to know about your essential question?
- What are the areas of inquiry that you think need to be explored?
- What are the other questions that are lurking just beneath the surface of your guiding essential question?
What I already know about my essential question is the general outline of the story I want to write, and a basic understanding of how to use twine. This topic is important to me because I’m interested in how I can explore the worlds of religion and secret society in my story while still taking my own spin on it. The understanding I am bringing to this is my general knowledge I have from starting to research a little bit before this week. The outside sources I am using are the books The Craft: How Freemasons Made the Modern World by John Dickie and Gnosticism and Hermeticism From Antiquity to Modern Times edited by Wouter Handergraaf and Roel van den Broek, plus online youtube videos for cursory overviews on subjects.
What I do not yet know is fully how I am going to realize my ideas in writing this story, though I think I am learning more as I just start to write and see what works. I think I need to read more of my freemasonry book for inspiration on one of my characters. I also need to figure out how exactly I can use twine to the best of its ability in making a fun experience for the reader that feels more interesting than just mostly straight text pages.