Well it is raining in my neck of the woods, and I believe it will be like that all day. But writers I have a secret! You can use this gloomy day to your advantage!
How????
*Hmpf* Well my friends I shall tell you my secret.
Sales: Do you have a rainy/gloomy/getting wet and cold scene in your book?
Well I have the right product for you! Its called, go outside and write how it looks, smells and feels.
Customer: But I will melt....
Sales: No you will not!
Actually if you have a waterproof journal this is an opportune moment to use it! (I would run outside when it rained just to use mine.)
So this is actually a good time for you to feel what goosebumps feel like when they start. What the rain feels like against your skin and how it rolls off your arm. See how you make-up and hair looks after you have been drenched.
Listen to the noises it makes, is there thunder, the drip , splat and slop of the puddles.
Splash in the puddles! I personally love to do this barefoot!
If you can smell the wet grass, look at what the flowers, leaves and trees do. Record everything and anything you see. Even the cars going by in the puddles. If you are near a body of water or the woods, venture there and just immerse yourself in the beauty.
Can you breathe while outside? Is it so humid that you can poke your finger through the air. Or so cold your lungs hurt.
Taste the rain as well. Is it sweet, earthy? (Be careful if its acid rain, check to make sure that you don't live in a region prone to that.)
You know if you have a significant other take them out in the rain with you and kiss them. Have them help act our your scene in your head if you are that far ahead as well!
If you make the effort of feeling what its like, then your reader can relate to it as well. I love when I can actually taste and smell what I am reading even if I have not had it since Thanksgiving dinner.
If any case, you can use this day to stay inside and write...and write...and write. So happy writing!
And most importantly after you come in from the rain, get warm, drink a warm beverage, put new clothes on, curl up in a blanket and do not get sick!!!!
(Unless you need to get a cold to write a scene...I'll discuss this another time.)
-The Page Girl
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