Friday, January 22, 2010

Rain, rain....

I feel like singing all the elementary school songs I know about rain at the moment (which consist of, Rain, Rain Go Away; It's Raining It's Pouring.....okay, apparently those are all the songs I know that say "Rain" in them, go figure, I thought the list would be extensive).

It's been raining here since Sunday. Sunday! That's unheard of for where I live (right in the middle of California). I think I might float away. Whenever it rains I find myself writing "cold" scenes into my books. I have to remind myself that the one I'm writing now takes place in the summer so it wouldn't make sense that my MC is shivering all the time.

I'm not kidding, I just added a "summer storm" scene. If this rain doesn't go away I fear one of my faeries is going to die in a freak lightning strike accident (Now all the songs involving the word "lightning" are running through my head....again, not a very extensive list).



Do you find that your writing is sometimes influenced by the weather (or other outside sources)?

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  1. I've never really noticed that about the weather. Sometimes things I see make me rethink how I wrote something though.

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  2. It definitely is. Especially a loud, threatening storm!!

    Great post.

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  5. Maybe not the weather. But for sure my internal mood. And sometimes I'm like that lightning storm, you know?

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  6. Yes, though weather I gotten used to thanks to Texas. However, music moods effect my writing a lot cause I like different stuff, different days. =D

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  7. I am influenced by the weather in writing scenes and sometimes I draw from weather I have been in. Lightning struck about 20 feet from me once-its deafening, all the car alarms went off and the fire alarms inside the apartment.

    That booming sound will be in my second novel.

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  8. When I was snowbound for a week, my MC was in Belize.

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  9. Sometimes, yes, and sometimes my writing is influence by what I WISH the weather would be.

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  10. I love the picture!

    My writing is definitely influenced by weather. It can make me feel more tired and sluggish or more energized and motivated, depending on the day.

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  11. yes, I'm constantly cold, so the world my characters live in is always warm.

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  12. Yeah, I find storms make me moody. ;)

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  13. We had several days of rain last week, but nothing like you're having right now.

    No, the weather doesn't really influence my writing. Unless you count how tired I am when it rains all day. Don't know why that happens:)

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  14. The weather does influence my writing. I find walking to be a very stimulating idea-generator!

    Love the lightning pic.

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  15. I think everything around me influences my writing weather (like the fact that I accidentally just typed weather instead of whether right there) I realize it or not. I bet you are so tired of the rain! Us California/Arizona girls are not built for weeks of dreariness! We need sunshine!

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  16. LOL! You forgot "Singing in the Rain!" i LOVE that song!

    Jenni

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  17. (LOL--and "Rain is falling all around, on the housetops on the ground...")

    Oooh, Kasie! You know, I was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. The thunderstorms there, when they came, were heavy, loud and wet! There was always a scent of wet earth they left behind and I would hurry and strap on my skates and skate through the flooding streets and smell the air. I would take the dog out for a walk just as the storms approached.

    When it would hit and being safe indoors, I would whip out my paper and pencil and create stories and stories and stories.

    LOVED the storms!

    I only wish they were like that here in Utah (cold cold cold!) >C

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  18. Yes! During my second NaNo, I was so desperate for inspiration I looked outside my window and described the sunset - then it became a theme in the novel. (I know that sounds horrifically boring, but I wove it into the plot.)

    And vice versa!

    The moon had a big part in my last NaNo novel and now every night when I pee my dog (that's our new verb) I look up at it and note its phase.

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