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“Love Song” by Jordan Bolton

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The stuggles of being a writer.

A shame that I have to actually finish my book before I get to read it. I enjoy writing it just as much but I am looking forward to finishing my first book and getting to read through it, even if I do know what's going to happen.

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Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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The final boss of “learning social skills” is seeing someone online say something about a special interest of yours that’d be the literal perfect opportunity for you to talk about it but deciding not to do it because the person made the comment so long ago it’d be kind of weird to reply now. If you can restrain yourself, you’ll be awarded the “King of Acting Normal” prize on national television by the president. Or so I’m told.

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Is Your Story Not Working? Change the Weather.

The weather is a GREAT tool for crafting the overall atmosphere of your story, and it profoundly affects how the scene is placed in the minds of readers.

Create Atmosphere

Describe temperature changes, smells and visual details to indicate an emotion.

rain puckered the surface of the water.

wind rattled the shutteres

fat lethargic flakes drifted past the window

the road glistened with black patches of molten tarmac.

Deepen the POV

Writing a sentence about how the weather affects the POV character creates a sense of realism.

her cardigan clung to her body, sodden and cold, and her boots squelched with water.

Needles of hail pricked her face, as if she had dipped her head into a pincushion.

Make It Difficult

Think of ways to use the weather to make the POV character uncomfortable, especially in scenes where they are tense.

a long trek through the broiling heat with neither water nor shade.

slipping on an icy pavement.

Stained Tempers

Weather impacts how we feel and act.

After weeks of grey skies and rain, MC feels lethargic or grumpy.

Heat makes people short-tempered and aggressive than usual.

Foul weather in general can make your character impatient or make foolish mistakes.

Mood and Foreboding

If you want the reader to feel what the POV does, describe the whether using words that convey that emotion.

POV is happy -> The wind caressed the branches and sent golden leaves dancing.

POV is angry -> Wind lashed the branches and ripped off the last leaves.

Beware the Pathetic Fallacy

Selecting the weather to reflect the mood can lead to cliched writing. A way to avoid pathetic fallacy - the weather changing to adapt to a character's mood - is to contrast the weather with the POV's mood.

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I think one big reason why we don't consider the stars as important as before (not even pop-astrology anymore cares about the stars or the sky on itself, just the signs deprived of context) is because of light pollution.

For most of human history the sky looked between 1-3, 4 at most. And then all of a sudden with electrification it was gone (I'm lucky if I get 6 in my small city). The first time I saw the Milky Way fully as a kid was a spiritual experience, I was almost scared on how BRIGHT it was, it felt like someone was looking back at me. You don't get that at all with modern light pollution.

When most people talk about stargazing nowadays they think about watching about a couple of bright dots. The stars are really, really not like that. The unpolluted night sky is a festival of fireworks. There is nothing like it.

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Not a tail but a pillow

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Not a tail but a pillow

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Thank you, Misha. I am much happier since I accepted who I am and came out 2 years ago. Happiness is in just being. Happy Pride everyone!

Happiness is in just being.  #HappyPride

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