The BBC and Yellowstone National Park have both recently released extensive archives of sound effects into the public domain; you never know when you might have occasion to know the exact sound of a grizzly crunching bison bones, the klaxon of a Romanian trolleybus, a shot from an 1870 17-bore twin-barrel shotgun, or the moaning of a frozen lake as ( Read more... )

https://mylordshesacactus.tumblr.com/post/619182104336613376/a-writers-guide-to-hurricanes-i-guess?is_related_post=1#notes.

This comes courtesy of Florida resident mylordshesacactus on Tumblr; here are some excerpts:

Do not think for a moment that just because you’re “only” experiencing Cat 1 winds that this storm can’t kill your ass dead. Do not ( Read more... )

(Disclaimer: I'm posting here because who knows--it might yield helpful research data for someone; what I'm seeking, however, is personal advice. Also, I'll readily admit my absolute ignorance of both the implicit subjects ( Read more... )

Searched:
     Wikipedia: "mantated reporting int he United States"
     Google: 'abuse "mandatory reporting" "first year" '

Does anyone know the first US state to pass mandatory reporting laws, and in what year?

Hullo, all ( Read more... )

I'm looking for a little help on what celebrity would my character had been likely to have a crush on ( Read more... )

Setting: present day Iowa/Virginia and London (UK)

What I am looking for is (if possible) first-hand accounts of coming from Small Town America to London (UK) for the first time. Not the obvious stuff (drive on the ‘wrong side’, no grid-iron road systems, much older buildings etc.) but the smaller stuff that you never expect. An example; a friend ( Read more... )

Hi ( Read more... )

Story is set about 2015, in the US (state as plot demands ( Read more... )

Setting: United States, 1950-1990--the earlier, the betterPretty much what it says on the tin: What were you reading, the year you turned 10 ( Read more... )