You know...speaking of the sex scene...
Did any of you have incredibly embarrassing or disturbing things you had to google because you wanted to remain as close to real life as possible? I certainly had to look up a lot of embarrassing things during my time writing.
For me, it's, my worst Google searches (which I always use Private Browsing for) usually are about whatever violent things I want to happen in my story. I try not to look for visuals because they disgust me and I'm certain Google wouldn't really help me with that. I always have a hard time trying to get myself to look for it. One of the ones I want to look for but cannot get myself to is what would actually happen to a person's body when they take a deadly fall. A more recent is about how hard it is to actually bisect someone diagonally (essentially, the character I was planning, a petite girl, would essentially need a magic blade to do it so that death is out. Also same thing with snapping necks. It takes a LOT more force than TV tells you...
Now my most recent embarrassing Google Search is something I actually take pride in as a writer. I had to look up how to guides for girls typing their hair into ponytails.
Let me explain that one! Essentially, my one character for my one story, like, metaphorically wears her control over her whole life in how she wears her hair. In particular, this rather stoic, well controlled, girl usually wears her hair in a well-managed ponytail. Later, when she loses control of her life (which happens several times during the course of the story. She literally curses the heavens for her shitty luck with life at one point), her hair is shown as a mess, not put up into any sort of hairdo and allowed to just flow everywhere. As a sort of explanation before anything happens actually, in one chapter, she tells her boyfriend, on a day she didn't have the time to fix her hair that day and that she hates letting her hair just hang down because it gets everywhere. Then...something bad happens (I won't say what) and she becomes an emotional wreck at the end of the day.
So, my whole reason I had to search for girls tying their hair into ponytails is because I had a mental image of her with her hair down and with her hair up and I wanted to see how reality conforms to my wish. The fruits of my labor ended up with her ponytail being now longer than I originally thought and her hair being shorter than I originally imagined.