From: jhetley@hotmail.com   
      
   On Friday, October 3, 2014 7:07:32 PM UTC-4, William Vetter wrote:   
   > In one of those books written by somebody who has claimed to have rejected   
   50,000 manuscripts or something, that's supposed to list everything we're   
   doing wrong, I found one of them that was interesting to me.  This person   
   claimed that it is almost    
   universal to use weather as a metaphor for the mood of the fiction, and   
   authors describe the weather progressive scenes as an obligation, and this is   
   sooooo cliched, and a grounds for rejection.   
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   > I don't know that this is so, but I do see this sort of thing a lot, as in   
   detective fiction where the weather is always dismal.  Or historical fiction   
   where the city is always wet and stinking and beset by a miasma.   
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   > How and when do you describe weather or what do you think about it.   
      
   Well, I started THE SUMMER COUNTRY with my heroine walking home through a   
   Maine sleet storm . . .   
      
   Weather can be a major character.   
      
   Jim   
      
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