Depending on the story that you are going for, there is always some form of research to go into. Whether it is the setting, time, clothing, or dialects, you want to immerse the reader in that world. Research is great, but sometimes we get sidetracked from the story at hand and bog ourselves down with the little details. I am not saying that you don’t need to do any research, I am just saying that there will be time to do that later. I have a rather large story, on the level of creating a mythical land, where I got so bogged down on the details and what it would look like, that no story was really being written.