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Like a lot of authors, I depend on my subconcious for deepest emotional scenes. I also depend on the weather to provide atmosphere for my stories. For instance, when I wrote "The Odds Are Against It," I picked a rare spring snow storm in Southeast Georgia for my backdrop. Tammy, a rural mail carrier, makes her deliveries along lonesome dirt roads on a blustery day, stopping mailbox to mailbox with the heater chuffing inside her truck. At one isolated mobile home she spies a bundled-up man heading toward her. She starts to drive away but feels foolish--he may need help. But this has happened before, eighteen years before, and her trusting and helping had resulted in getting shot. BUT the odds of it happening twice are so unlikely. Now, later, looking back at this story turned ebook, I'm rethinking my weather choice. Shouldn't I have chosen a mild sunny day for contrast with such dark emotions? Does it matter since I was working strictly from the immagination? I'd like to hear from other readers and writers about the use of weather in fiction. Contact me at
www.janicedaugharty.com
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