Absolute favorite web site for research

[pegkerr]

Here's my hands-down favorite web site for me as a writer (well, besides Google, and we all know about that, don't we?) It's refdesk.com. Bookmark it and marvel. In the five years I've kept coming back to this site, I keep finding more and more stuff that's amazingly useful. Spend some time exploring all the nested pages on this site and you'll find an astonishing cornucopia of research treasures.

Here's one I found just this week. Sure wish I'd known about it when I was researching The Wild Swans. It's on the refdesk.com Daily Almanac Page, and it's the link called Time Capsule. Simply enter a date, and you'll find out what songs were popular on that date, what were the newspaper headlines, the popular TV shows, the toys in the stores, typical prices, the average income . . . everything you need to give verisimilitude to historical writing.

Also check out the Quick Reference/Research page, the Fast Facts page, the Top 10 page, the Journalists' Tools page, and on and on. You can find an expert, find a perpetual calendar, find the NASA web site, find absolutely anything you could possibly need.

Spread the word. For writers, this site is simply the best.

(And yes, it's where I got my "words, words words" icon!)

Peg

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is a good site.

Thanks.

B