Weather happens. No place on earth where has no weather. The same should be true about your fiction. It doesn’t need to be intrusive. Just a touch once in a while will do. “The sunlight glinted on the water.” That…
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Weather in Fiction
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Climate, Weather, and Your Characters
If you are going to write a believable story, the climate and weather will come into it. Often, you can have the weather cause problems for your characters. I have a main character in a work that I’m currently revising…
Tagged with: fiction, rain, snow, storm clouds, storms, tornado, weather
Posted in Writing Techniques
Posted in Writing Techniques
Weather
There’s an old saying, “Everybody talks about the weather but no one does anything about it.” Well, that’s a true statement, in so far as it goes. No one does anything about the weather because we don’t have the technology…
Tagged with: atmosphere, continent, currents, detriment, disaster, drought, droughts, earth, hurricane, regimes, rotation, Sahara, situations, technology, weather
Posted in General Opinion
Posted in General Opinion
Weather
Several years ago, I nearly became a weather forecaster. I would have been one of those people who tell when a storm is coming, and when. Sometimes I regret not going down that path. If I had, I would know…
Tagged with: clock, computer, conversation, factors, forecaster, forecasters, guesswork, humans, Navy, Polar, Polar Vortex, prediction, Vortex, weather
Posted in General Opinion
Posted in General Opinion
The Weather
We all know that the weather can make or break a picnic, but we don’t think about how weather affects a great deal of our lives. We usually think of how weather affects the fun things in life, like picnics,…
Tagged with: accuracy, allergy, Americans, atmosphere, Climate, destruction, humans, picnic, prediction, problems, production, Severe weather, Sometimes, thunderstorm, weather
Posted in General Opinion
Posted in General Opinion
Why Setting Is The Most Important Plot Element
Setting is the most important part of a story’s plot because, without it, your characters are nowhere. Picture actors in front of a green screen and there’s your story. There’s nothing for the characters to react to, which makes it…
Tagged with: actors, characters, Climate, Element, fiction, location, places, Plot, plot element, weather, World, writer, writing
Posted in Writing Fiction
Posted in Writing Fiction
Weather
“People always talk about the weather, but no one does anything about it.” I can’t remember who said that. I don’t know if I ever knew who said that. It’s true, though. People talk about the weather even though there’s…
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