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The purpose of this research post is to be helpful, more importantly educational. I certainly don’t condone the use of this knowledge for malevolent reasons. I want to help writers with their stories and I figured this would make their search for such information easier. 

This is great for the stories that take place in ancient times, apocalyptic setting, and/or contains characters that are archers. Maybe you’re writing fanfiction and it’s about one of these characters: Legolas Greenleaf, Bard the Bowman, Kili and Tauriel (The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit), Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games), Kagome Higurashi (InuYasha), Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (Arrow), Princess Merida (Brave), Susan Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia), Link (The Legend of Zelda), Hawkeye, Robin Hood, Lara Croft, and so on. 

This information would help make them believable. For example, if they are teaching another character how to be an archer it would be difficult to write about it without first knowing how it’s actually done in real life. The same can be said about when they are wounded by an arrow, just how would they deal with it? Or if your character is a survivalist or prepper and their story is set in an apocalypse world, they would probably know how to make weapons (like the bow and arrows) from the things around them in order to survive.

So this post is meant to make a writer’s life a little easier by giving them a starting point. It doesn’t contain EVERY information about bows, but if you know what you’re looking for than I encourage you to look it up. 

How To Make A Bow and Arrows

WikiHow - How to Make a Bow and Arrow

WikiHow - How to Make Arrowheads

WikiHow - How to Make a Bow from Green Wood

WikiHow - 2 Easy Ways to Make a Composite Longbow

WikiHow - How to Make an Archery Bow

Expert Prepper - Bushcraft Survival: How to Make a Bow and Arrow

Bushcraft UK - Primitive Arrow Making (PDF)

Survival Mastery - How to Make a Bow and Arrow: Part 1

New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies -  How To Make: A Replica Native American Bow (PDF)

The History of Archery - The Making of the Native American Bow and Arrow

The Project Gutenberg -  Hunting with the Bow & Arrow: How to Make a Bow (PDF)

The Project Gutenberg - Hunting with the Bow & Arrow: How to Make an Arrow (PDF)

The Project Gutenberg - Hunting with the Bow & Arrow: Archery Equipment (PDF)

Primitive Ways - Grow Your Own Bowstring

Nature Skills - Survival Bow Making

Mother Earth News - Making a Bow and Arrow for Bow Hunting

Bushcraft Days - How To…Make a Flint-Tipped Arrow

Bushcraft Days - How To…Carve an Ash Flatbow

Bushcraft Days - How To…Carve a Holmegaard Bow

Bushcraft Days - How To…Build a Bhutanese Bow

Sensible Survival - Primitive Bow Making: Part 1

Sensible Survival - Primitive Bow Making: Part 2

Sensible Survival - Primitive Bow Making: Part 3

Sensible Survival - Primitive Bow Making: Part 4

Sensible Survival - Primitive Bow Making: Part 5

Youtube - Making a Primitive Bow, Part 1 (Video)

Youtube - Making a Primitive Bow, Part 2 (Video)

Youtube - Making a Primitive Bow, Part 3 (Video)

Youtube - Making a Primitive Bow, Part 4 (Video)

Youtube - Survival-Bow Made With Bare Hands (Video)

Youtube - How to Make a Primitive Bow, Part 1 (Video)

Youtube - How to Make a Primitive Bow, Part 2 (Video)

Youtube - How to Make a Native American Comanche Arrow for Primitive Archery Hunting (Video)

Youtube - Making Primitive Arrowheads For Beginners (Video)

Youtube - How to Make Bow and Arrow the Old Way (Video)

Sensible Survival - Making Arrow Fletching from Whole Feathers

Native Way Online - A Basic Method For Making Self Bows

Martin Survival - Primitive Archery - Arrow Making (Videos)

Primitive Archer Magazine - Making Arrows Naturally

Alderleaf Wilderness College - Survival Bow Making Instructions: How to Make a Quickie Bow from a Sapling

Alderleaf Wilderness College - Making Arrowheads: The Art of Flint Knapping

Primitive Ways - Fletching By Hand

Sigma 3 Survival School - Build Your Own Primitive Arrow Quiver

eHow - How to Make a Primitive Bow and Arrows

eHow - How to Make an Indian Bow & Arrows

eHow - How to Make an Original Indian-Style Bow and Arrow

eHow - How Did American Indians Make Bows & Arrows

eHow - Trees That Are Used to Make Bows & Arrows

eHow - How to Make a Wood Hunting Bow

eHow - How to Clean & Preserve a Recurve Bow

eHow - How to Care for an Archery Bow

The Archery Library -  How to Take Care of Your Bow and Arrows

The Archery Library - Making Self Arrows

The Archery Library - Stringing or Bracing the Bow

The Archery Library - Making Bowstrings

The Archery Library - Bow Woods and Bow Staves

The Archery Library - Arrow Woods and Arrows 

How To Use A Bow

How To Write Fight - Weapon Primer: Archery

Wikipedia - History of Archery

Wikipedia - Bow and Arrow

The Archery Library - Common Archery Terms

Merlin Archery Centre - Jargon Busting

Merlin Archery Centre - Choosing Your First Bow And Arrow

Merlin Archery Centre - Correct Shooting Technique

The Archery Library - How to Aim

The Archery Library - Shooting the Bow

Youtube - How to Shoot a Bow and Arrow (Video)

Youtube - Archery for Beginners (Video)

Youtube - How to Avoid Common Shooting Mistakes (Video)

Shootingtime.com - Archery Form: Stance, Grip, Shot Execution

WikiHow - How to Shoot an English Long Bow

WikiHow - How to Pull an Archery Arrow out of the Target

WikiHow - How to Shoot an Arrow

The Art of Manliness - Taking Aim: A Primer on Traditional Archery

Alderleaf Wilderness College -  How to Shoot a Bow Instinctively

The Project Gutenberg - Hunting with the Bow & Arrow: How to Shoot (PDF)

Survival Mastery - Bow Hunting Tips: Get Better, Faster

eHow - How to Keep Your Bow Hand Steady While Shooting Arrows

eHow - How to Choose the Right Long Bow

eHow - How to Tell the Difference between Left & Right-Hand Bow and Arrows

eHow - How to Shoot With a Bow 

eHow - Difference Between Compound and Recurve Bows

eHow - How to Make a Crossbow

Discovery.com - DIY Survival: Make a Crossbow from Scratch (Video)

Survivalist Magazine - Build a Survival Crossbow (Video)

Before It’s News - DIY: How to Build a Crossbow

Mother Earth News - How to Make a Crossbow: The Classic Crossbow

Sigma 3 Survival School - How To Build a Survival Crossbow

Instructables - How To Make An Extreme Powerful Wooden Crossbow

University of Oxford - Simple Archery Mistakes

ArcherZUshot - How To Write Credible Fantasy & Historical Archery

Benjamin Rose - Can Arrows Penetrate Medieval Armor?

Reddit: Ask Historians -  Would English archers during the Hundred Years War make their own bows and arrows or would they be made by other people?

Reddit: Ask Historians - How were wooden arrows in medieval battles kept perfectly straight?

Reddit: Ask Historians - What would archers/crossbowmen do in the rain?

Reddit: Ask Historians -  Did poisoned weapons (especially arrows) ever got used in warfare?

How To Write Fight - Can a character really grab a arrow out of the air coming straight at her from afar?

Archery World - How to Shoot Your Bow in Archery

Outdoor Life - Shooting a Bow: 7 Tips For Better Long-Range Accuracy

Oakland University -  How Was the Bow and Arrow Invented? (PDF)

Ancient Fortresses - Medieval Bow and Arrow

Medieval Life And Times - Bow and Arrow

How To Treat An Arrow Wound/Injury

Journal of the American Revolution - Battle Wounds: Never Pull an Arrow Out of a Body

eHow - How to Remove an Arrow Wound

The Rebel Prepper Network - SHTF Medical Article of the Day: How to Treat an Arrow Wound

Medscape - Arrow Shaft Injury of the Wrist and Hand

Michigan Bowhunter Education Course -  First Aid: Bleeding and Arrow Wounds

Reddit: Ask Historians -  How Hard was it to Supply Arrows to Archers in Ancient Battles? &  TokyoBayRay Explains How Medieval Doctors Treated Arrow Wounds

Reddit: Ask Historians - How Have People Treated Arrow Wounds Throughout History?

Reddit: Ask Historians - Treating Medieval Injuries

Quora - How do Bullet Wounds Compare with the Wounds Inflicted By Bow-and-Arrows and Those By Crossbows?

National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine -  Arrow Wounds: Major Stimulus in the History of Surgery

Medical Scene Writer - Arrow Wounds

The Bowsite - Wound Management

John Wiley & Sons Online Library -  American Anthropologist, Volume 3, Issue 3: Arrow Wounds (PDF)

Mythic Scribes: The Art Of Fantasy Storytelling - So I Was Shot By An Arrow…

Ciara Ballintyne - How To Properly Remove An Arrow: Crazy Things I Learned Researching Books

AbsoluteWrite - First Aid for an Arrow Wound

AbsoluteWrite - An Arrow in the Gut?

AbsoluteWrite - Cauterizing an Arrow Wound

Slithering Ink: A Writing Advice Blog -  Advice on Arrow Wounds

How To Write Fight - How would an arrow affect bone? Break it? Bounce off?

How To Write Fight - My character is hit by an arrow to the shoulder from a considerable distance. Would it be possible for the arrow to hit a muscle and somewhat incapacitate her arm? If so, how long would it take to completely heal, if ever?

Un nouvel article sur un sujet qui me tenait particulièrement à coeur (si vous me suivez sur Twitter vous m'avez probablement vu pété les plombs quelques fois sur ça), j'ai vraiment pris le temps parce que je voulais faire quelque chose de bien mais aussi parce que c'était pas facile de se farcir tous ces articles plus affreux les uns que les autres par ce qu'ils relataient ou les propos des journalistes qui sont plus prompts que l'éclair à défendre ou diminuer les crimes de ces chers messieurs. URG.

J'espère que c'était ok à lire, désolée il y a beaucoup de textes mais c'est dur de mettre ce sujet là en image, parfois.

Tout un tas de liens sur le sujet :

- Un très bon article de Brain Magazine sur le sujet et un article de Diglee en réaction. (en français)

- Un autre article sur le même sujet, qui aborde aussi l'affaire Baupin, sur le HuffPost. (en français)

- Depp : un article qui résume la situation et qui parle des défenseurs de Depp + l'affaire est close maintenant (j'ai commencé cette note en juin), elle a divorcé et promis de verser l'argent du divorce à des associations contre la violence conjugale mais bien sûr les journaux la font chier car peut être qu'elle va en garder un peu pour elle non mais vous imaginez elle veut une compensation waouh quelle horrible personne elle va seulement verser 7 millions de dollars hyper égoïste !!!! Sauf que Depp a versé lui-même l'argent directement pour les avantages fiscaux car apparemment il était pas un assez gros naze.

- Allen : un article sur les détails “étranges” de l'affaire et de comment ça a été traité + la lettre ouverte de Dylan Farrow + celle de Ronan Farrow + la retranscription de la décision de la cour lors du procés (en anglais) +

- Polanski : l'article infernal de Télérama qui parle de “calomnies” et de “persécuté” (il faut souligner que Télérama, et l'auteur de cet article qui a écrit plusieurs articles problématiques, sont vraiment complaisants et tout à fait défenseurs d'Allen et de Polanski) + l'article de L'Obs sur Samantha Geimer cité ici + la pétition mené par BHL + Finkielkraut qui défend Polanski en disant que la victime n'était plus une “enfant” + un article sur ses propos au Petit Journal + la vidéo du passage au Petit Journal + ses propos à Cannes sur la pilule (tout en français)

- Une liste de mecs célèbres abuseurs (en anglais)

- Deux articles de Buzzfeed : un sur pourquoi le monde français de la mode continue à bosser avec Richardson (en français) et un où ils ont interrogé les marques directement (en anglais)

- Tous les articles du HuffPost sur les violences de Mel Gibson (en anglais)

- Un article sur Steven Seagal et l'affaire de séquestration (en anglais)

- Un article (un peu trop complaisant à mon avis) de Jezebel sur David Bowie et sa relation avec Lori Maddox (mais où l'affaire de viol est à peine mentionnée) et un autre un peu pareil + un autre qui explique pourquoi il faut en parler (en anglais tous les trois)

- Un article de Jezebel sur la réaction de Jon Stewart quand on lui parle de Louis CK + Roseanne Barr qui parle de CK + la “réponse” de CK (en anglais)

- Un article sur la fille de Klaus Kinski et son témoignage (en anglais)

- La page wikipédia sur les accusations de viol de Bill Cosby (en anglais)

- Un article sur les propos d'Elijah Wood + ceux de Corey Feldman + un autre ici (en anglais)

- Et quand même l'article de Crêpe Georgette sur la culture du viol.

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