User blog comment:Ameagle/60's slang (and the believability of period pieces)/@comment-25148755-20170712051040

Can't speak much to the sixties. I've written some period pieces in the early nineteen hundreds, but basically just try to write like Lovecraft. I think people are people. There might be some different slang that's used but that's really it. Don Knotts is as good a representation of how the average person was then to how a modern comedian would be now. Everything is stylized for the movies. Like you I'm absolutely terrible at outlining. He current story I'm writing rehashes events from another character's perspective of a story I wrote more than two years ago, and ties directly into at least four of my other stories, and I'm still trying to figure out exactly how e wry thing is gonna shake out at the end. I'd say focus more on writing a good story than overly worrying about giving it a sixties feel. Like you said, if it's that important, you can go back and fix it during the editing process.