Hahaha can I just say HOT, or the weather outside is weather yeah? But if you at least take a couple of sentences to mention the pressed white tablecloths and the grand piano, the reader can picture the setting in their mind while the scene plays out. Describe the house too, her mum and maybe her dad.
. beautiful, 82 degrees, mild breeze, cloudless sunshine, a day for looking at a ball game, a web of clouds, back-lit by the failing sun, mist billowed through the trees and over the fields and hung low in the air, masking the camp in a ghostly gray. Here, too, though I have an excellent fan in my home office. i also post weather images regularly on instagram. So here’s my first piece of advice…. To be able to put you right in the middle of the books setting. This way, you won’t get stuck trying to figure out how to describe nice weather, or thinking up ways to describe rain. “until the shadows lengthen Not great weather for polyester suits, a fresh drop of sweat teared up on her brow and made a slow, wet path down the plane of her cheek. The sleety rain drizzled down, not very hard and not very fast, but steady.
The writer doesn’t even need to describe her panic. Nature saga.
A light breeze whispered through the trees. It’s good to see how other authors describe things; it gives ideas on alternates. It is. I just went over and replied and then emailed my info to you. They know more about snow than anyone I’ve seen.
Don’t remember having a good one of these for a while. then in thy mercy The reader can then take their experience of rain, say, and use it to imagine a rainy scene.
Thanks, Jill. “How to describe weather” seemed like a good place to start. A note: These are for inspiration only. If you give the reader no clues about the weather whatsoever, something important will be missing – is it hot, cold, wet, dry… what?
And it is the same with writing about the weather: never leave the reader stranded, unable to form a mental image of any kind. BTW, you won a book on my blog. Great list, Jacqui. What if the rain affects the events, or the character’s mood? Wonderful.
It’s just wet. 1997—2020 Freelance Writing. The force of it bent trees, whipping their bare branches like angry lashes.
Oooh, I’ll have to look at him. If a boy takes a girl out on a picnic, make it rain. These really struck me. Clouds threatening, but no rain predicted the 45-mile per hour gusts of drizzly wind. Not only that, it’s a crucial part of the setting, particularly when the weather shifts from being ordinary to extreme. I keep a collection of descriptions that have pulled me into the books I read. How can people enter your contest? The best bet, if the weather really isn’t important, is to “tell” it to the reader straight….
And it can do it in a short space. (are you sitting down?)
One solution is to refuse to accept the first description that comes to mind. He could feel the sweat roll down his sides and the dampness of the box up against his chest. The mist floated like smoke out of the cypress in the swamp.
Can I confess something? Sun still cast a faint yellow light through Slowly gathering evening. Fog began to billow across the road in a great grey mass like the effluent of a thousand smokestacks. But if you don’t mention the weather at all in your writing, not even briefly, an important element will be missing from the mental image in the reader’s mind. I am flattered you share them! What a wonderful poem.
against the fading layers of orange, yellow, shoulders hunched against the early morning damp and cool, fused warm light of dawn now creeping down the summit, gold shadow not three inches from his leg. I love the idea of keeping a notebook with descriptions that catch your attention.
winter’s naked branches created a black tracework.
Summer sun remained a brilliant, blinding white. Reblogged this on quirkywritingcorner and commented: When you leave a comment, WordPress stores your gravatar name, IP Address, comment, and email address. When Mary left for work the next morning, it was still raining.
Sometimes, it can be more interesting to shake that up: have a character be joyous despite the gloomy weather, say, or down in the dumps despite the clear blue sky. OMG, Jacqui. God this heat was unbearable. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, In the Footsteps of Giants Winter 2020. Choose the best option. Who knew weather was so interesting? Thanks for sharing this! Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. But it affects everything…. I keep a collection of descriptions that have pulled me into the books I read.
Writing about the weather in your novel, and writing about it well, is critical for an atmospheric story.. It’s also a great shortcut… A simple description of storm clouds gathering on the horizon, say, can foreshadow troubled times ahead in the plot, or act as a symbol for the character’s mood. In the real world, we chat about the weather even when there’s nothing much to say. Evening was crisp already, the last of sunset just a fading pale stripe in the western sky. Please continue to submit jobs early and often. windshield wipers barely keeping up with the cold, hard rain. Next time you don’t know what to say to someone, you can eruditely talk about the weather! How exciting! I will say, the prompt my students seem to love the best is. Useful phrases describing weather (a) The sky and clouds: The high sunlit clouds drifted across a clear blue sky. . By morning, city streets were shallow rivers rushing toward the ocean. Only 7 in the morning, and already stocky hot. The haze floated over the crowd like smoke from a doused fire. The semi-drought slowly draining the life out of the grass and trees. Burst back into the blistering hot sun. Be a breeze = Be easy, no problems / Don't worry about the test.It'll be a breeze. She is also the author/editor of over a hundred books on integrating tech into education, adjunct professor of technology in education, blog webmaster, an Amazon Vine Voice, a columnist for NEA Today, and a freelance journalist. If you feel your data has been misused, you have a right to complain to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA).
I enjoyed reading these, thanks:). Couldn’t stop reading. These lists are so inspirational! Some readers will imagine heavy rain, others a drizzle, but it doesn’t matter because the precise nature of the rain isn’t important – the readers just need to be able to imagine something.
The sun was climbing out of the deep well of winter, but it was still brutally cold. She slogged forward, feeling blotches of dark gray sweat bloom across the front of her T-shirt, while more trailed down the small of her back.
If you recognized them from your outdoors scenes, feel free to add a note! Suppose a mother is worried that her young son is late back home.
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Sweat immediately beaded across her brow. *** cranked the air-conditioning.
How to Use Weather in a Setting. Some great phrases here, Jacqui.
This one got a little long. And it … Dump a tray of ice cubes on your bed. We had a tropical depression pass through, but that’s it. turned her head away and looked out my window, where it had gotten dark and shiny with the lights glistening off the rain. Writing about the weather in your novel, and writing about it well, is critical for an atmospheric story.
I hope you find them as helpful as I do. I’m fascinated how authors can–in just a few words–put me in the middle of their story and make me want to stay there. It rained most of the time on my one visit there.
Downpour started in the early evening and continued on through the night, a heavy pelting of water that thundered against rooftops and drowned out the sound of all else. She could feel her T-shirt glue itself stickily to her skin. We are proud to post your contest here, free of charge. I think I’d like to be a meteorologist in my next life. A half-moon rests in the fronds over our heads. can I just say ‘HOT’ … luckily today it’s cooler with a sea breeze … I need to read them all – clever and thank you! Seemed to be bracing himself for leaving the cool comfort of air-conditioning behind and bursting once more into the heat. Engage all of the senses (how the weather sounds and smells and tastes).
Pop your underwear in the freezer. In other words, describe…. A simple description of storm clouds gathering on the horizon, say, can foreshadow troubled times ahead in the plot, or act as a symbol for the character’s mood.
thanks for the info.
Taking this one step further, you can have it actually symbolize how a character is feeling inside.
Sweat tricked from his forehead which he wiped with the back of his knotted, callused hand. When Mary left for work the next morning, the sky was as dark as slate and the icy north wind was blowing the rain straight into her face. What a wonderful list, Jacqui! I would say India not so much. So many ways to tell the day. A car spinning its wheels at the side of the road.
But having two characters in a novel chat about unremarkable weather, or having the narrator describe a perfectly ordinary rain shower, say, can send the reader straight to sleep.
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