The weather outside is frightful. There's snow, and sleet, and so much ice I can't get up the driveway on foot or in the car. (I live at the top of a hill.) Normally, none of this fazes me. But my current work in progress is set in the Caribbean, and it's hard to remember what it feels like to be warm when just getting the mail from the box down on the street is a chore!
Does the weather affect your writing? What do you do about it?
Friday, December 14, 2007
A Question of Weather
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The only time the weather really affects my writing is when a storm of some kind knocks out the power. Since I work out of a home office, I don't commute (unless you want to count my walk down the hall), so don't have to deal with driving through snow or waiting on a freezing LIRR platform. Of course, the first few beautiful days every spring always wreak havoc with my output.
I was deeply affected, because our roads didn't get really good and cleared and salted until evening, meaning I missed the NY Sisters in Crime holiday party which I had been anticipating. The train was running, but the street surface mile to the train was ice pellets and rime through the afternoon.
I'd planned to be edified and inspired by the brilliance of other writers yesterday, but instead I'll have to steal their ideas later.
I love shoveling snow. I don't like shoveling chunks of ice, balled up and tossed aside by the snowplows, only to be sleeted in place by Mother Nature.
This is our first winter in NY in a long time. We're usually cozied up in Myrtle Beach, SC. I was looking forward to the snow. Still am...
Does it affect my writing? Only in as much as Santa's sleigh is dropping off parcels via UPS and the US Mail and the need to gift wrap is increasing, as is the push to go bake something to share.
There's lots of extra reasons around this time of year to wallow in the joys of the season. Guess that's why somebody invented New Year's Resolutions!
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