Saturday, August 10, 2013

Write about the Weather


Ernest Hemingway suggested including the weather in a piece of writing. Regardless of  life's happenings, we chat about the weather.  Weather fills in spaces of conversation where we do not want to talk about reality.

Why do we feel such concern about the wild force over which we have no power? Since weather affects how we feel and relate to others, it provides a motif or framework for writing.

Go on!  Write about the weather.

Consider its influence on a situation and how the character in your story or poem feels powerless or indifferent to its forces.  Show the emotional effects.

Make weather a character. Have a type of weather act out his or her own concern about the weather.



Create a dialogue between two characters where talk of the weather sets a tone and replaces the necessary discussion at hand.

Use weather in a humorous way. Devise a series of dilemmas based on changes in the weather for a character.  Let comedy shine through.

Describe a scene where you deal with challenges of weather.



Weather the storm and play in the sun today.

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