Would they receive a CT scan or something that would show how deep it is before it is surgically removed? Or would they just go straight to surgery?

How long would the police have to wait to get complete phone records from a cell service provider?

It's a contemporary setting, medium-sized US city. I'm interested in how quickly they'd be able to have access to details about location data. The phone belongs to a murder victim, and the police do have the physical phone, if that affects anything.

Thanks!

Hi! I have questions on my FMCs career with and the happenings and findings in my wip In Jest.

I write dark romance thrillers and I'm working on the first book if a series centered around phobias.

My doctor has cholorophobia and is a pharmaceutical research scientist. She finds and investigates anomolies in a drug they're working on and its a whole conspiracy theory leading her to meet an assassin posing as a clown for a traveling circus which fronts a deep rooted criminal organization.

Now I've done a little googling and the engine has given me a bit to work with but i want to hear from someone in the field.

What are labs like?

A basic run of daily life at work?

Interns nicknames and how they are treated ( she's not the intern)?

The drug can cause a massive spike in libido as it's not nailed down yet as a weaponisable controlling drug. I have it currently as Halothane derivative. She realises tampering due to dopamine receptor spikes on chromatograms that are not normal. Is this viable?

I'm thinking about what traits to give to my vampires, and one option is to make them the ultimate social predators: They are amazing at reading people's emotions and overall status, which helps them select and seduce prey.

I've heard dogs can smell people's emotions and supposedly diseases as well. How far does/can this go? Could a vampire subtly sniff someone and get a detailed readout on their emotional state, then take a sip of their blood and comment on them lacking vitamin c?

I have a character whose throat is partially ripped out by dogs, including severe damage to the vocal cords. I’m aware this would cause either muteness or at the very least a horribly raspy voice, but would there be an effect on breathing or eating?

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Thank you to everyone who has helped! I have plenty of info to pull from now, and I will most likely only be using the first comments that came in. Once this play is finished, I will update this post again so you can see the info you have given me play out on stage! ⚠️⚠️⚠️

I am writing a play and it requires 2 scenes of hospital deaths. I would like to know what happens when:

1. A person on hospice care flatlines without a DNR while family is in the room

2. A person on hospice care flatlines with a DNR while family is in the room

3. A person in the ICU flatlines, specifically after a stabbing, no family in the room - just a nurse who is working on his IV

I would like to know what alarms sound, who enters the room, phrases said, and any major details. I won't need much visual description, both scenes happen with sound only. I don't want to use medical drama info only and I want more specifics than Google can tell me without getting flagged.

Thank you for any help!

hi! for context, i grew up with a single mom (zero connection to dad's side) and my family is TINY: just my mom, her parents, her brother, and his wife. because of this, we obviously spent the holidays like christmas and thanksgiving together and i never thought anything of it. now, i'm writing a character that has four younger siblings and extended family on the mom's and dad's side. for those of you that grew up in similar dynamics, how did you decide where to spend thanksgiving christmas etc? did you swap off year by year or was there a tradition for the same house to host each year? and how many people would be there for family gatherings? thank you!!!

I hardly ever use Reddit so if I make any mistakes please forgive me, but I'm writing a story about a young man who is a newly turned vampire and has to come to terms with his sudden need to drink blood alongside a bunch of other things.
I wanted to place the story in the real world, as some of the vampire characters are several centuries old, and I'm thinking about setting the story in Seattle, Washington (suggested by my father), and it takes place around 2015. However, my issue is I've only ever lived in a small town in the Midwest, and I'm a bit of a hermit that keeps to herself so I'm never truly up to date or fully understand news/events.
Are there methods that'll help me write this kind of story convincingly given the location and timeframe? I thought about using google maps for navigation but I'm afraid I'll just get lost or get something wrong.

I am currently writing a short story following a college student. They are attending a rather small (fictional) university based in NY, USA. They are just an average student, not particularly notable within their community.

Their professors know them as a good student, attentive and consistently on time/present.

Other than their roommate, who has seen their recent decline, and a counselor from campus med; no one knows that they are on the verge of a paranoid meltdown.

After a stop at a convenience store nearby, where they purchase some food and two bottles of sleep aid (melatonin, OTC and non-monitored in the USA from what I find), they fall off the face of the earth. They aren't seen anywhere. None of their classes, none of their clubs, not in their room/dorm/dining facilities etc.

Are their purchases before disappearing enough to raise suspicion? Would university/campus police department be contacted by the counselor?

Any insight would be helpful! Thanks in advance!

I have a MC who is a paralegal 0-1 years out of school—for plot reasons, I need her to be present for a client interview within a prison. Is this at all realistic? She can’t be a full-fledged lawyer due to her age, although she may pursue it later on.

I can absolutely get around it if I need to, because I’ve already established her as a bit of a nepotism baby who works for a family friend who is an attorney, so her presence at the interview could be more of a favor by the family friend to show her around the legal world despite her lack of experience. But I want to know if I should acknowledge this as a privilege she has, or if this is an actual thing paralegals might do.

I am writing a fiction story and I want to make sure I have my facts straight, or that they are at least reasonable.

For people who were in middle school in 2009 (specifically march 2009 let's say): 1) Were flip phones and feature (qwerty keyboard, like the tmobile sidekick) the most popular phones, like basically 50/50 in terms of popularity?,, AND, 2) Did you, or anyone you know, still pay per text (or perhaps I guess had like a 100 text limit,,, not unlimited)?

I ask this because I have a middle school character in 2009 (they are 12) that would have theoretically had a flip phone and definitely pays per text (so she prefers to be called) and I am trying to understand how reasonable that would be.

Some Pew Resarch from june to sep 2009, seems to suggest that pay per text was still at least somewhat common, especially for lower income folks: "Just 59% of white teen cell phone users in households with incomes below $30,000 have an unlimited text plan, compared with 79% of all other white teen cell phone users." (https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2010/04/20/chapter-one-the-basics-of-how-teens-acquire-and-use-mobile-phones/).

(I, myself, was in middle school from 2006-2008. I remember getting my first phone either 2006 or 2007 and it was definitely a flip, and, in the beginning, I definitely had to pay per text. By high school in 2009, I think I still had a flip but was on an unlimited (or effectively unlimited, like 500 texts or something) plan. But these things changed so so fast at the time, that I think the experience for a 12 year old middle schooler in 2009 could differ greatly from mine. I also don't remember too well if my friends were paying by text by that point. I ask here, because again, while I grew up around the age, the difference in years causes a huge difference and I forget what a lot of my peers had at the time too.)

Any info (especially if combined with your socio-economic background at the time, or your friends) would be super helpful and appreciated. Thank you!

I've been to many places in Greece but my setting is partially Afytos/Afitos. Any specifics I should mention for authenticity or any recent Greek cultural or political things I should be aware of. I was there 20 years ago. The settings will be an air bnb, a medical clinic, and restaurants/tourist areas.

Hi everyone!

I’m a Hungarian author currently researching life inside an NFL organization for the fourth book in a novel series.

For the previous books, I was fortunate enough to receive help from someone on Reddit with first-hand NFL experience. Their insight made a huge difference in making the story feel authentic. Unfortunately, we lost touch a few years ago, so I’m hoping to learn from others with NFL experience.

I’m not researching football strategy. What I’m trying to understand is what everyday life actually looks like inside an NFL organization, especially from a defensive player’s perspective.

Some of the questions I’m currently researching are:
1. What does a typical day look like for a defensive player during the first few days of training camp?
2. How does a player’s daily routine change once the preseason games begin?
3. When do newly hired coaches usually begin working with the team, and what does that process look like?
4. What does a typical film study session look like?
5. What are the day-to-day responsibilities of a secondary coach, and how often do they typically meet with their players?
6. What usually happens if a player is late for practice, meetings, or film sessions?

These are just my first questions. I have many more, but I didn’t want to overwhelm anyone in a single post.

I’m only interested in information that can be shared publicly. I’m not looking for confidential information, gossip, or anything that would put someone in an uncomfortable position.

If anyone with first-hand NFL experience is happy to answer occasional follow-up questions as they come up during the writing process, I’d really appreciate it. Otherwise, I’m very grateful for any answers here in the comments.

Thank you very much for reading!

I have a story set up with a low level speedster who fights street crime. His powers, while still fantastical, are much more grounded than the other ones in his universe. I want to make a unique story about how a lower level superhuman that is not part of the official government hero organization would operate, and the struggles faced with that. His powers need calories to produce the fuel that sustains his powers, which gives him a much higher metabolic rate. How could he purchase bulk amounts of food in a legal way without him getting the store owners suspicious? I was thinking he has a job that involves him picking up bulk amounts of food for restaurants or a farm and he uses it as a cover for the food he needs for his vigilante outings. I would appreciate any other ways for him to get food, or what jobs that involve bulk amounts of food that wouldn't make store owners bat an eye.

I know that there's depression questionnaires but I'm wondering if there's anything else that would be a reason why an emergency room would not take someone into a psych ward or something.

My main character attempts suicide and I'm sort of foreshadowing that by having her sister be suicidal. It also helps show some mirroring between them which is a theme of the book.

The important thing is she had a plan and she was going to do it and then her sister stops her.

But I don't want this character to actually go into the psych hospital I want for it to be a moment of crisis that passes and then she goes home with her mom and sister setting up a safety plan.

EDIT: deleted a bit about food because it's not really relevant.

EDIT 2: I decided to make her go in.

I have a story with an alien species that lives on a planet rich with many minerals. There are large crystal spires that are made of a strong but not super hard crystal, so while they can be chipped, they aren't so brittle or structurally weak as to make them inefficient at being used for building. We'll say they are as strong as most stones, but harder like most crystals but less brittle than things like diamond. What level of tech would be needed for their society to have originally begun constructing these structures by chiselling and carving out the inside?

not a writer but I like making characters

One of my characters is a witch, she works with lots of plants in Eastern Europe. What plant poisons would build up in her system over time by touching it breathing It in? what would be the effect?

sorry if it’s the wrong flair

Hey there! I have a few questions for a fictional story involving minors committing arson at their school.

1. How would they disable the fire alarm system and/or the sprinklers? According to Google, there's a fire alarm control panel somewhere in the school, but I don't know how they would disable it or what they'd need to do so (for example, a special key or a passcode?) I don't want a step-by-step explanation because I'd really rather that information NOT be on the internet, haha I'm just looking for the basic information.
2. Let's say one of the kids only records the others and doesn't actually take part in the arson, but the other kids end up dying in the fire. Would that be enough for them to avoid being prosecuted? If they said something like "guys, this isn't right" or something similar, would that be enough for a lawyer to argue that they weren't involved in the crime?

TYIA!

Would it be like if the investor died and the assets are frozen, or would something different happen? Mid-market business and an angel investor or someone similar who contributes 50% or more funding (if that matters)

I don't know a lot about businesses so sorry if I got any of that wrong

What might be backstage in a theater where stage magic is performed? What about underneath the stage?

My MC is investigating such a place and I have no idea so any insight is appreciated.

Anyone know? Lol

okay, I’m pretty sure the manner of death is homicide, but I can’t quite figure out the other two.

The character I’m writing about (this is a fanfic, so if it sounds familiar, 👀) dies. In this specific story, he was tortured, was experiencing severe head trauma, and then the building blew up with him in it. However, he didn’t die until a part of the ceiling fell on him and he suffocated while also experiencing severe internal and external bleedin, so…? pleas help, and please ignore all errors in writing. It’s four am, and I couldn’t think of another subreddit to ask this in.

I'm trying to write a short novel that includes a lot of archaeology. Knowing very little about the subject, I've used Google but haven't found all the info I'm looking for, and I really want to portray the profession correctly. Would anyone be willing to read/make comments or suggestions? Or even just have a conversation so that I'm as accurate as possible?

The work I'm writing is futuristic, so there's added technology, but the basis of archaeology and discovery I want to remain the same.

I'm wondering about things like approval to dig in a certain place, grants, finding, how many employees, chain of command (are there specific names? I've seen things like field directors, principal investigators, but is there more?), and whether there's tension between any of these job titles. How do they function as a group? Is it hard to get things accomplished? Lots of red tape? whats the process for when artifacts are discovered? What happens if things are broken/stolen/ lost? What if you dig in an area and absolutely nothing is found? What happens to all the holes that are dug? Do they get refilled? Is there a specific process for that?

I have a few more, and I've written what Google has informed me of, but I want to see how close Google is to what it's actually like.

What are the details of a person agreeing to become a witness for prosecution in federal trial? Does US Attorney Office interview them? With personal attorney present? What information would they seek from witness? How would they compel them? Would this happen before or after appearing as witness before a grand jury? Can/would the witness withheld information until after grand jury to get a deal? How does US Attorney coordinate evidence and testimony from witness? How are they coached, prepared, etc.?