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WriteOn! Weather or Not [1]

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Date: 2026-02-26  

Sometimes the weather in your writing is just… atmosphere. Pun intended. Or it helps show the passage of time from scene to scene. It influences what your characters choose to do outdoors or indoors. It can be an emotion-trigger for characters, or for the reader if handled right.

But sometimes it is an antagonist in itself. It may block travel, threaten life or limb, destroy evidence for an investigator, damage property, and much more. “Human against Nature” is one of the big classic themes of literature.

and if you are writing current fiction or non-fiction even more so, weather events connected to climate change may loom over your work even more. The opening of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future is a terrifyingly realistic account of a deadly heatwave from the middle of it. Whereas Hollywood invariably makes total hash out of any tiny nugget of science they start with, e.g., The Day After Tomorrow. Realism is not their goal.

What is your goal? That will define your choices when using weather in your writing.

Challenge: Write a scene where weather plays a role. Try not to use typical descriptives, but rather how the weather affects your characters.

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