Comments on: Weather Thesaurus Entry: Wind https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Fri, 02 Oct 2015 19:31:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Tracey https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8296 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:59:56 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8296 I’m one of those slack types who fills in setting later. I find the rest of the novel comes much easier. So, thanks for your posts, they give me the nudge in the ribs I need.

]]> By: nutschell https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8274 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:58:37 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8274 i love these posts! and how apt as it is a bit windy in LA as of the moment.
nutschell
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]]> By: Owllady https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8273 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:45:46 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8273 Reminds me of the time I heard the wind howling through the open metalwork of a huge broadcast tower. I was across a wide parking lot and across a street. Wind usually suggests “power” to me.

]]> By: Rachna Chhabria https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8271 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:47:58 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8271 Thanks for sharing this wonderful post. I like the idea of using weather details, but seldom do so. Will bookmark this post.

]]> By: Carrie Butler https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8270 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:48:41 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8270 Great post! I loved your point about breezes giving seasonal clues. 🙂

]]> By: Cat https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8269 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:40:25 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8269 I absolutely love using weather for dramatic elements in my stories. I LOVED all your examples.

]]> By: Dawn Malone https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8266 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:56:40 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8266 My WIP is set mostly outside, so this will come in handy! Thanks much!

]]> By: storyqueen https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8265 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:42:55 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8265 Oh, thanks for this! I’m revising a scene where the MC’s hair has whipped her face about four times! (Which is three too many.)

Thanks for opening my brain to the other options.

Shelley

]]> By: Martha Ramirez https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8264 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:20:49 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8264 Interesting. Thank you!

]]> By: Becca Puglisi https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8263 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:42:15 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8263 The windmill cliche was referring to the Don Quixote reference–tilting at windmills, and all that. I don’t see it often, but that one reference really sticks out in my mind so I wanted to flag it. 🙂

]]> By: Heather https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8262 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:57:10 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8262 I do love foreshadowing! Wind sounds like an excellent way to do it. I’m jotting down those cliques though so I stay away from them. Thanks for this!

]]> By: tracikenworth https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8261 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:52:46 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/07/weather-thesaurus-entry-wind/#comment-8261 I love how you stress not to use the weather entry as a “window into a character’s soul.” Weather has a place in fiction, yes, but you’re right shouldn’t be used as an extension.

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