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Us Brits talk about the weather. A lot. What's it like where you are? And how do you use the weather in your writing?
This week's Action/Adventure Newsletter contains a whole lot of rain and sunshine.
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What’s the weather like where you are? Has it been way too hot, like it has been over here? So hot that you struggle to sleep at night? Or do you live in a nation where it’s winter now, and you’re wrapped up in front of the fireplace?
Where I live, people talk about the weather. A lot. It’s like a national sport. We complain when it rains, when it snows, and when the sun’s out. Probably because we get loads of rain and then either we don’t get a summer at all, or it’s like this, when there’s no rain for weeks and it’s not actually enjoyable enough to take advantage of it being dry.
I live in the countryside, and not far from me the moors were on fire. Around here, the land’s dry and the farmers are concerned about their crops. The waterfall I pass on my walks no longer has any water to fall. I know I said that we needed a summer, because last year it consisted of two nice days and the year before it wasn’t much better, but when it hops from one extreme to the other, what does one do with that?
The weather, as with many things in life, doesn’t always behave the way you want it to. Need it to. Sometimes with disastrous consequences. I was born in the Netherlands, a country that’s built a whole load of defences because in 1953, 1836 people died as the result of a terrible flood. The same event struck 326 people in the UK, 361 people at sea, and 28 people in Belgium. 2,551 lives lost...
Year after year the area around me gets flooded. Fortunately, the consequences haven’t been as horrifying as what happened in 1953, but there has still been suffering felt by individuals and by businesses. I live at the end of a street that slopes upward, and the water has not reached my house, but who knows what will happen next time, or the next? Every time it floods, my friend and her daughter, who live in the nearby town, have to move everything to the second floor of their house, just in case.
One could argue that we should move, but that’s not always straightforward. There’s no place on Earth where the weather is just the way you want it, all throughout the year. Or, if there is, please let me know! I’m thankful that we don’t get devastating tornados here in the UK, as those would truly frighten me. Generally speaking, I can cope with living under a raincloud.
The warnings on the news made me think of how the weather affects our characters. It is one of the many things that a writer has to take into consideration. It can also be a handy tool – whilst in our daily lives we cannot control the weather, in the worlds we create we get to decide whether our characters have to face a storm, hide from a downpour, or if they can stretch out on a sandy beach.
It can be easy to fall into clichés, of course. Are your main characters in love, and they only discover that the other feels the same when they hide out in a wooden cabin during a storm? Do they kiss in a dramatic scene during a downpour? Is your group of heroes and heroines travelling through the mountains when they are faced by heavy snow? Readers have been there before.
If done well, however, that first ray of sunshine after a time of struggle can lift one’s spirit. So can that first raindrop when one feels parched. Use the weather. Use it wisely.
Now, where’s my good ole British rain?
Kitti the Red-Nosed Feline
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