Okay, so this is highly specific and I'm having a hard time googling it (seriously, somebody up there is going to think I'm planning identity theft by now, for how often I googled "false identity during wwi", "soldiers swapping identity", "mistaken identity" "passport during WWI" and so on). My question is: How hard or easy would it have been for ( Read more... )

(Setting: AU resembling the contemporary northeastern USA ( Read more... )

Hello. I'm a little stumped. I am touching up a Big Bang novel and I realized I may have used the incorrect terminology for two things. Here's the scenarios ( Read more... )

Trying to think of various fake items that medieval grifters and con-artists would have sold, like pieces of unicorn horn (to cure poison and sickness) or wood from the True Cross. I've been searching on google using 'medieval scam', 'medieval con artist', 'medieval snake oil', 'medieval fake unicorn', 'medieval unicorn horn true cross' and the ( Read more... )

Setting: Present USA ( Read more... )

Context: present day US (information on other countries also interesting ( Read more... )

So, I'm writing about  a con artist, and I'm having trouble with his dialogue.  My problem is, he's effortlessly charming, and could sell snow in the middle of a Canadian winter - and I'm not, and couldn't sell ice lollies in August.

To research this so far, I've read several books on cons and con artists, specifically things like How to Cheat at ( Read more... )

Time: Now ( Read more... )

I have a character who is kind of a mercenery, but more like a hired-hand. He advertises himself as a freelance menial servant. Pretty much anything you can think of he will do as a freelancer. He also has skills as an assassin, but that one's pretty under-wraps ( Read more... )

A friend has been questing for this word, and now she's got us all going crazy looking for it. Please allow me to post the question in her own words ( Read more... )