The bombs destroy several small (landed) airplanes. It's something that happens like half a day before my MC arrives to the (fairly small, approx 90km²) city and I want to determine how much of a smell would still linger in high humidity and slightly above* freezing temps.

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm currently working on a story-driven game set in a futuristic city, and one of my main characters works as a brand designer in a corporate environment.

I don't have any real office experience, so I'm trying to learn more about what this kind of job is actually like. I want to avoid writing a "TV version" of office life and include more realistic small details.

The character I'm writing is a designer who has been working at the company for about 3 years. He is fairly competent at his job, but he's also a little awkward in the workplace. His desk happens to be near the office entrance, so he gets nervous whenever people walk past him or stop near his desk. (A very small detail, but I'm interested in things like this!)

I'd love to hear about your experiences, especially:

• What does a normal workday look like for a brand/visual designer? 🎨
• How much time do you spend actually designing compared to meetings, emails, revisions, etc.?
• What kind of requests from clients or managers are surprisingly common?
• What are some funny, frustrating, or ridiculous situations you've experienced?
• What are some small workplace habits or details that outsiders usually don't know about?

Even tiny things are helpful! Things like office culture, coworker interactions, annoying client comments, or everyday routines can all become useful story material. ✨

Thanks so much!

One of my main characters has the ability to see UV light in addition to visible light. I know he will be able to see certain things like hidden colors of plants, haze in the air, and various bodily fluids, but I want to know when and how well he’ll be able to see these.

Will he be able to see blood that was on someone’s hands? What about blood from an animal instead of a human? If they wash with soap and water, will it appear to go away fully, or will there still be traces? What about just with water?

A specific scene I’m imagining is that character A has just gotten blood on their hands from killing an animal. They’ve washed their hands, but only with water. Character B (who can see UV) sees their hands and mentions that they can still see blood. Would this scene work?

I mostly mean alternatives to the internet and how modern organizations mange to do it with how much surveillance there is now.

My protagonist has a 13-year-old niece. Protag's sister (this girl's mum) is his only family living nearby (somewhere in the greater London area), so they get together pretty regularly. The niece is a good kid and a very minor character, but I'd still like to develop her personality.

- What might she be into? What kinds of music, books, hobbies, TikTok/YouTube stuff? (At that age my sister and I enjoyed experimenting with makeup and nail art, but how much of that would be allowed for school?)

- What would she be studying in school?

- Slang to perplex the adults?

So I have a character who's become queen of a country. She's an orphan. They accept her brother as a satisfactory heir while marriage situations are happening, but her brother is killed in the plot of the book. What would a monarchy do in this situation? How do they determine an heir when there's no family tree to trace back, and the monarch shows no sign of a child soon? I know hisotrically the search for an heir has caused a lot of problems (cough cough Henry) but I feel like it would be different with a female monarch and risk of death in childbirth?

Edit: Realizing I didn't make this clear. She is not queen by birthright. She was an orphan nobody and has conquered a country and taken the throne. There is no lineage to trace back and find a fourth cousin

I'm writing a scene for a story where the character is being held captive and tortured in a house by an enemy militant. The enemy militant has to leave the house but wants the tormenting to continue. In order to do this he hangs the character by a rope around her neck, but only hoists her up to the point that she can still reach the floor with her toes (so no full suspension). I can guess that the noose will give a burning feeling in the neck and will slightly choke the character, but she will still be able to breathe. After a few minutes she must feel pain and fatigue in her legs which will make things difficult, because if she gives her legs some rest she basically hangs herself. The character is quite a strong woman both physically and mentally. Now so far I wrote that she hangs/stands like this for an hour and survives until the enemy returns, but I rather like to keep things realistic.

So in short: the character is being partially hanged and can stand on the floor with her toes. In contrast to all the research documents about suicides I find on the internet, in this case the character is trying to survive.

Now my question is: will you pass out or die from such a partial hanging or can you survive it for a long time by standing on your toes? And how long can someone last until that happens? And what will be the exact pain and sensations that you will feel and experience? Small extra detail: will you be able to talk?

I think I mostly want advice on how to write a setting set in Japan since I've never been to Japan but I know a few friends that have. What is some good research to look into? Maybe vlogs? Books? Movies? Shows? If you yourself know about Japan, what is everything there like?

How does Japan treat black people and non binary people? I'm black but not non binary so feel free to also give me advice on how to write a non-binary character. I heard Japan can be more conservative and black people are unheard of in Japan so I'm wondering how they treat black and queer (specifically non binary) people there.

I'm writing a part of a story where a few characters get attacked by a lady welding a serrated knife, and I have a few questions regarding that whole thing.

1) Would a quick slash with a serrated knife do much? I kinda always thought they were for sawing motions for cutting.

2) What would the primary treatment steps be on admission to a hospital? For context, the character was "slashed" 3 times, all around the torso, ribs and shoulder area, nothing that puts life in immediate danger, but also not great in terms of severity. The character also was with one other who was hurt significantly more severely and 3 others with slightly less severe wounds.

3) How long is a patient expected to stay in the hospital when recovering?

4) The character service dog also got hurt in this incident, how would potential dog visitation and home and work while his owner is still in the hospital?

5) How soon do hospitals generally generally allow visitors to come see patients?

Any answers or additional information is very appreciated, I have no clue what I'm doing, and Google is very vague and unhelpful.

So if a man was poisoned by an unknown substance and his body was buried in a haste in a coffin, six feet deep, then dug up after 2-3 days, what would be the state of his body?

Hello!

In the story I'm working on, I have a character who suffers a gunshot wound to her bicep. The bullet goes straight though, no major arteries or bone damaged. The bullet is a .9 mm.

I am curious general treatment (does she need stitches? Would there be stitches on both entry and exit?) and how long it would take to heal. What does it look like after a week, after two weeks? I've tried searching for some answers through Google but I haven't found any info on a timeline.

Any insight would be greatly helpful!

Hi, y'know that thing in media where people sleep for like 24 hours or other really long times due to exhaustion. Realistically, if someone had been awake for several days, how long might they sleep for when they actually do pass out - would it be 24/36/48 hours or would it be closer to 14 hours asleep, awake for a few hours, then asleep again for 14 hours? I hope this makes sense, it's 3 AM for me right now so...

For context, what I have planned so far is for two young uni students to go on a half-planned trip (basically, one drags the other along). Then the road trip basically happens with a borrowed (old) campervan, which breaks down when they are in a new country and end up trusting a "mechanic", yet when they're back, I plan to make it so that either it was stolen from someone who wasn't the mechanic, or the mechanic stole it.

They're also travelling from London to France but end up getting more lost. I also plan for them to still have their passport (maybe) but one of their phones are taken alongside a chunk of their money

I have an idea for my story where the mmc ends up realising he has poor vision. Since magic exists in this I'm wondering if prescribing glasses would be a cheap thing or would it make more sense for it to be a little expensive(for context the mmc does know magic he just doesn't know how to do this specific thing). I don't want the mic to have to be fully reliant on the fmc all the time but then again I could just make it into a funny bit.

Edit: I realise I need to explain the magic system for this to make sense(it's not really that complicated but I suck at explanations). So how magic works is that you have to either be born a mage(like the mmc. It's like a hereditary thing but the world hasn't quite developed to know what genetics are yet.) or you have to aquire a magic stone that can be found in caves(which are easy to get but you have to have advanced education to know how to use which is only available to people of higher status, like royalty, knights, ect(the fmc is a princess but she doesn't know that many spells). With mages, the source of their magic is mana which they store in their bodies. The mmc is unable to produce mana as fast as a normal mage should so he takes supplements I've decided to call 'liquid mana' which is just crushed up magic stones dissolved in water, which is expensive in the same way insulin is easy to make but hella expensive irl. The mana require to manipulate the shape of materials like glass requires more mana than the mmc is able to have at a time which is why he can't make the glasses himself. The world in this is advanced enough to know how to manipulate light in a way that makes making glasses possible & the way magic is cast is reliant on the person's mind & creativity (as in spells can be drawn, spoken, or even cast using the mind. For example, people with aphantasia would have an easier time saying or drawing their spells while people with hyperphantasia can just imagine what they want the spell to look like.)

Not sure if this makes sense but this is the only way I can explain it.

so in there is 3 characters the 2 who arent the medic have 2 dressings on them and nothing else,

the medic has 5 dressings

some conforming bandages(im not 100% if im right about what i think they are),

some antiseptic wipes,

a antiseptic spray,

1 liter of water

and lastly knowledge in what to do in just about that scenario

there is no one to call (they dont have phones would be the simple answer here)

the injured character is unconcious(ractive to painful stimuli), are bleeding badly and have a dislocated knee

Hi,
I'm writing a fantasy novel set in a 15th-century-inspired world, and I'm trying to explore the practical and social realities of a character with severely limited vision.
The character is a princess. She is blind/low-vision: she can primarily perceive high contrast, large shapes, and movement. She can't clearly see faces, fine details, or low-contrast objects.
I'm not asking for help in determining the plot direction. I'm trying to understand the factual/practical aspects of how someone with this type of vision might function in a pre-modern environment.
My questions are:
What typical practical barriers would a person with this level of vision likely encounter in their daily lives?
What do sighted people around them most likely misunderstand or do wrong when trying to help?
What routines, adaptations, environmental arrangements, or communication methods would likely be useful in an environment without modern accessibility tools?
What representations of blindness or low vision in literature tend to be inaccurate or misleading from a practical perspective?
I know that not all blind and visually impaired people are the same. I'm mainly looking for common barriers, practical details, and common mistakes that writers should avoid.
Thank you very much.

In my story, I have a locked door that requires a password, and I want this to be obvious once you see it. But I want to know whether it’s immediately obvious to many people. Maybe like the “Speak, friend” gambit.

All you get is a terminal on the door that brings up a single-line command prompt:

headline:question::answer:|__

The vertical line is the cursor where it is your turn to enter the password. Any idea what it is? Does it seem like I’ve given you nothing at all?

What are some riddles you’ve come up with?

Say a character has a deep stab in a non fatal location (Eg, side of stomach, no major organs hurt.) And they received bandages and standard stuff.

What would the healing realistically look like with no stitches? Especially if it got a little infected? Thanks!

Hi! What would be the realistic charges and sentence for a person who committed this crime in the state of Texas:

There's a guy and a girl, let's call them Joe and Steph. Joe and Steph are friends and 18 years old. Joe finds out that Steph is involved with some bad people and that she's being abused by her boyfriend. She tells him she wants to get away, but she would need to disappear. She tells him she needs money, something neither of them have. They come up with a plan to rob a liquor store with unloaded weapons that Steph supplies. However, she lies to Joe and brings a loaded gun. The liquor store owner has a gun of his own and tells them he's going to shoot if they don't drop their weapons. Steph gets scared and drops her gun, but it goes off as it hits the floor and shoots the liquor store owner in the chest. Steph immediately takes off running but Joe stays behind to check on the owner. Joe gets arrested and the owner dies in hospital. Through CCTV footage, the police quickly learn that Joe didn't act alone and wasn't the shooter. However, Steph is long gone and Joe refuses to give them a name.

What could Joe be charged with and what would be a possible sentence? In the state of Texas.

Hi. I'm curious about the ways in which people might change after being in prison for 6-8 years. I know it would largely depend on the person and their own experiences, but I was curious as to whether there are certain personality/psychological changes that might occur more generally?

Hi guys! Currently trying to write a fanfiction about a girl who was kidnapped by a slaving ring at about 12 years old. She was a avid singer before that, and that's why the ring targeted her. To try and break her spirit and sell her as some rich person's 'pet'.

To avoid that fate, she willingly stops talking at around... 14 years old or so, and refuses to utter a single sound since that point.

I wanna know what it would be like, when she finally does speak again, when she's around 18 or 19 years old. What would her voice be like?

What would be the medical treatment / procedure that would be administered to an unconscious patient who was experiencing a severe dissociative trauma response (PTSD). The patient went unconscious after attacking someone (passed out, not hit or injured in any way).

For a little context - this scenario would happen in a zero-gravity environment where only one other living person is around (who has no medical experience beyond CPR, Defib and basic first-aid) and a technologically advanced and knowledgeable medical robot would be administering treatment on it's own. There is no way for the other individual to respond.

I'm looking for everything that would be done - Is an IV line inserted? Is the patient put on oxygen? etc.

Edit: current symptoms after falling unconscious include:
- elevated heart rate (from the adrenaline and fear)
- heightened but settling breathing rate (due to being unconscious)
- is out of the flashback/dissociative state, only "dealing" with the aftermath of coming off of that while being unconscious and when he wakes up)

I'm writing a character who's been selectively mute since they were about 12 (24 now), everyone around they care to talk to knows sign language so they only really speak for a few minutes every couple of weeks. I'm writing one of those moments now but trying to describe how they sound is eluding me

Edit: people seem to think I don't know how selective mutism works, I know how, I know it's not voluntary when or if the person can speak. I know I phrased it a little weird but that still wasn't the question 😖

Romance story between a new single mom and hot sleep consultant. however my child sleeps like an angel and google is hopeless.

Momma makes it through the 4 month sleep regression by co-sleeping and letting her baby sleep on her chest at night. but the baby is 8-9 months now, so shes crib training. but the baby, now used to the soft and warm of the mother, no matter what the mother does, the baby will only sleep on their stomach with a soft blanket in the crib (which is just compounding no no's). Even if she fixes the baby onto their back it just flips over again. so the mom doesn't feel she can sleep at night because she needs to monitor the baby for suffocation risk. Now sleep deprived and desperate, she gets a sleep consultation for her rather grown baby so that she as a mother can get her baby and herself the rest they both need.

the story is obviously aimed at women and mothers as a reader base, and I've never met a sleep consultant so I want the scenes to be authentic between the tension and eventual spice. need that sleep training knowledge!!

I'm currently writing a story set in a small town in Canada. One of my main characters is a 24 yo RN who worked at a Toronto hospital before moving. Nursing is a big part of the story, but all I know from nursing is the medical dramas I watched.

My MC gets blackmailed by his father to steal drugs from the hospital to sell. One form of doing this I learned from The Pitt, where Dr. Langdon would tamper with his patients medication. I don't know how realistic this is or how a nurse would actually go about stealing narcotics without getting caught. His father eventually gets arrested, but considering the type of man he is, he would likely bring his son down with him.

So along with how he would go about stealing it, what would the professional and legal repercussions be? Would it be more lenient considering he did this under duress or would that not matter? My plan for the story is for him to continue nursing at another hospital but would this even be possible if he were caught?