From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
   On Sunday, October 5, 2014 1:57:22 PM UTC+1, William Vetter wrote:   
   > On Saturday, October 4, 2014 10:50:40 PM UTC-4, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
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   > > > This person claimed that it is almost universal to use weather as a   
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   > > > metaphor for the mood of the fiction, and authors describe the weather   
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   > > > progressive scenes as an obligation, and this is sooooo cliched, and a   
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   > > > grounds for rejection.   
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   > > "Weather progressive scenes" ?   
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   > The sky gets more and more stormy to foreshadow a suspense level or plot   
   triangle.   
      
   I tend to use weather to make the protags more experience more real to the -   
   it is a big part of the experience of begin in a particular place. More often   
   than not it provides plot problems or opportunities and, as it is usually bad   
   in my stories, it    
   places my characters under further duress. I've used it to reflect a psych   
   state only once that I remember: I am wary of the pathetic fallacy.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)