I don't know choreography, but I can tell a waltz from a jitterbug. For a story, I need a brief description (as in "this is a rhumba) of the Astaire/Rogers dance in "Night And Day" from "The Gay Divorcee", 1934.  I have Googled: "dance style of Night and Day dance" "dance steps of Night and Day dance" "choreography of dance in Night And Day Dance ( 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... )

So let's say I've got a character in his fifties or sixties, still in good physical condition, who was run through in the shoulder area and then fell a certain distance. He was rescued before he hit anything during the fall, but then he still has to escape the area where this all happened. How much exertion could he reasonably take before his body ( Read more... )

Has anyone gone to college at the same time a famous person (famous at the time, not famous later on) went? I'm wondering more about close to now, in the social media era. I'm thinking James Franco, Olsen twins (at NYU), Emma Watson (at Brown) level of famous ( Read more... )

I've been working on a story about a sixteen-year-old girl in London during WWII. Specifically, during the Blitz, so I'm thinking about 1940. However, I'm having some trouble because some important parts of the plot depend on what sort of access she has to American films and information about Hollywood and American stars ( Read more... )

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing."
A compiled reference and fact guide to writing fic for the 1930s.

As asked for, here's the follow-up on my 1920s guide! [US-oriented]

( The 1930s. )

Hello! My story is set in New York in 1962. (Uh, yes, it is X-Men First Class fanfiction ( Read more... )

Four databases that might be useful for fanfic, or for fiction generally if you want to find something and your best source for it is that you've seen it in a movie or TV show ( Read more... )

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Greetings: This community was recommended to me, for a question that may be entertaining to answer.

I am writing a story that is (initially) set in an American university, circa AD 1942 - wartime, but not scraping the bottom as they were by 1945. So we're talking crew cuts and blazers, sweaters, skirts and saddle shoes ( Read more... )