Spotlight : Writer's Dreamtools

Writer’s Dreamtools is a site compiled by writer/editor Larry Belling from over 25 years of research. He's posted an incredible historical database for free.

http://www.writersdreamtools.com

Any writer can immerse himself into the era to be able to write about whatever setting. And, any artist should be able to use the tool as well to pick up details otherwise missed.

That 1950's full sleeve? Elvis and a jukebox is obvious. But Writer's Dreamtools can show us some other interesting ideas that would go great in that sleeve: Mad magazine was introduced, men were wearing tweed and mohair coats, women were wearing 14 inch hemlines, Picasso was painting Sylvette, Tokien's The Fellowship of the Ring was released, and Hitchcock was presenting The Twilight Zone.

Better. Much better.