Writing: The Important Effects of The Weather
The weather not only impacts the characters of the writer’s imagination but it also has an impact on the writer.
Cover of Rainy Day
It’s around 11:30 AM in Pittsburgh. The sunny hot days have past and now today will be a rainy hot day.
A few minutes ago I was stretched out on the sofa with a couple of pillows under my head trying to figure out what to write about. Outside, it was raining. I stared up at the flickering incandescent light that I cannot afford to replace and I listened to the rain.
Now I sit at the workstation and it is still raining.
I know not to phone my mother on a rainy day. I can hear her now. “I don’t do any work when the Lord is doing His work.”
For my mother, who is 91 years old, talking on the phone while it’s raining is in someway disrespectful to God.
I understand exactly where she is coming from. I know when I write a short story I often mention the weather even if the story takes place inside. Because weather is a wonderful tool for a writer to indicate or to establish or to emphasize something about what is going on in the story and maybe how the characters feel about it and it also can help form how the reader feels about it.
And the weather, whether it is fictional weather or real weather, affects the writer, like the rain is affecting me now.
So, just remember when you write your next short story or even when you write a letter and you mention the weather, the weather is always more than just the weather.
Here’s a flash fiction you may enjoy: Girls Gone Wild.
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June 7th, 2011 at 10:29 am
The weather can be many things.
June 7th, 2011 at 10:33 am
Awwww, I enjoyed that. And bless your mother’s heart – 91.
June 7th, 2011 at 10:45 am
nice one,i like it..
June 7th, 2011 at 10:53 am
I like the rainy weather we’ve been having over my side. It’s cool.
June 7th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Once again Hogan You nailed it
June 7th, 2011 at 12:42 pm
I so love the rain, though I enjoy watching it not being in it. Cute article!
June 7th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
We live in a complete society with its twists and turns, and so do our characters.
June 7th, 2011 at 10:30 pm
I live in Beaver County and all we had were a few low thunders and strike of lightening. But this is a great article. I will use your tips about weather in writing. I want to write short stories and poetry.
June 8th, 2011 at 3:42 am
Yes in my last short story it began with a very heavy rain storm and I described how the characters sheltered from the rain and how their clothes were wet and what they were wearing. It sets a subconscious scene as you rightly say Guy. LB
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June 11th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Yeah, weather is a good tool for a writer.