Lyricality

Hello all! Day 2! And for everyone who asked, all the World Building exercises can be found here (click Fantasy World-Builder's Guide, then World Building Exercises at the bottom). Another big thank you to andersenmon, who showed them to me in the first place. They were originally posted on the Nanowrimo forums.

Exercise: What role do you anticipate weather playing in your story? Do you have a lot of travel that you want to complicate with bad storms? Are you going to snow in your mighty heroes? Will there be a mighty battle, determined by sudden flooding? You actually don't need to know right now. Your exerise for today is to jot down ten plot devices that relate to weather, and what you think they do to the story (for example: a snow-in can turn the mood very claustrophobic... or very intimate).


1. Thin ice that someone could fall through, for a twist and a sense of danger

2. Storm wrecks a ship, stranding characters together and forcing a certain intimacy

3. Heavy rain washes out the road, causing characters to get lost and end up in even more danger

4. Fog rolls in, isolating characters and making them more inclined to trust each other when they find each other

5. Wind and rain force everyone indoors for days, and tempers run short

6. A sudden chill quiets all the wildlife, and creates an eerie mood

7. A lazy, warm evening helps relax inhibitions

8. Lightning and a building storm make for a feeling of heavy dread and apprehension

9. Steady rain ruins plans and causes general melancholy (except for that character who didn't like the plan to begin with, ha)

10. Deep snow destroys grazing and starts a famine, stressing characters further


In other news, I've been doing some contract work for my former employer. Yey. It doesn't pay much more than unemployment does, ironically, but who cares! It will extend my benefits, anyway, and I'm glad to be doing some sort of work again. There's also a chance that the workforce center here will pay for training, so that I can learn Flash-based web design, which would be a huge help in finding a position locally. We'll see how things go.

I expect that what I really need to do to help my life fall back into some sort of order is go to bed at a reasonable hour, and get up earlier. ...Also I need to remember what day it is despite holidays, because I just realized that I forgot to make Vianne's dinner post on TR. *headdesk* I lose.