whether there will be weather
Dec. 17th, 2011 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliWeather is one of those annoying things to write about.
Sometimes it's plot significant: fog to hide what happens, snow or rain to trap the characters indoors, what have you. And sometimes it's useful for setting mood -- tragedy can happen on a dark and dreary day or ironically, on a bright and sunshiny one.
But -- the thing is about weather is that it's always there as long as your characters ever poke their noses outside. Even when it's not a convenient place to have significant weather.
Your readers may find clear and sunny nondescript enough that you can never specify anything more, and keep the story going without their wondering, but other readers have been known to mind.
On the other hand, there's always the possibility of using it to inspire plot developments -- or sticking it in as local color and find it running about, laughing maniacally, and influencing things all over the place. . . .
Sometimes it's plot significant: fog to hide what happens, snow or rain to trap the characters indoors, what have you. And sometimes it's useful for setting mood -- tragedy can happen on a dark and dreary day or ironically, on a bright and sunshiny one.
But -- the thing is about weather is that it's always there as long as your characters ever poke their noses outside. Even when it's not a convenient place to have significant weather.
Your readers may find clear and sunny nondescript enough that you can never specify anything more, and keep the story going without their wondering, but other readers have been known to mind.
On the other hand, there's always the possibility of using it to inspire plot developments -- or sticking it in as local color and find it running about, laughing maniacally, and influencing things all over the place. . . .
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Date: 2011-12-18 10:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-18 02:44 pm (UTC)Did anyone ever break his neck, falling?
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Date: 2011-12-18 07:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-19 12:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-19 01:19 am (UTC)Ladies and gents, if you won't let yourself get excited by something, why are you wasting our time?
(Winter doldrums and end of the month blues, I'll be feeling better on December 30th when I get paid. :) )
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Date: 2011-12-19 03:59 am (UTC)