46 - Story Research

Rationally Writing Podcast




Daystar and Alexander discuss the common necessities of research for writing fiction.



Co-hosted by Alexander Wales



With thanks to Tim Yarbrough for the Intro/Outro music, G.A.T.O Must Be Respected



Links



Vulgar, language generator useful for consistency in made up languages: https://www.vulgarlang.com/



Google Translate, for real languages: https://translate.google.com/



Etymology Online, for word origins: https://www.etymonline.com/



Google N-gram viewer, for historical usage patterns: https://books.google.com/ngrams



WolframAlpha, for math and physics: https://www.wolframalpha.com/



Wikipedia, orders of magnitude for physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Orders_of_magnitude



Timestamps



0:30 A Stable of Experts



12:49 Inspirational Research



19:15 Spot Research


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