What tips do you have for conducting story research? For a great starting point - especially for stories that are time period specific - I like to dive into Google News Archives. I also like to do an "advanced" search in Google Books and limit my search request to certain time periods. Right now I'm working on a story set in the early 1900s and I have been searching on Google Books for info concerning autopsies and how they were performed during that time period. Also have been looking through articles between 1875 - 1910 that deal with mysterious drownings and seeing if there are any nuggets that could work their way into my story. Google Advanced Book Search: http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Google News Archives: http://news.google.com/news/advanced_news_search?as_drrb=a Cheers, Rob

Pictures. I love pictures. I have to know what people and places look like; what the light's like in the morning and the evening, how crowded the streets are, what colours people dress in. And the facts that strike you as unusual - having discovered there are, to my considerable surprise, luxury ski resorts in Iran, I just had to set a sequence in one...

Thanks, Rob. That advanced book search is awesome, especially for historical research.

And since movies are primarily a visual medium, you get a double benefit!