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>Something I've had to stop myself doing
>recently is starting with the weather. I
>have some opening paragraphs that I feel
>have their mood and atmosphere defined by
>the weather, and they'll probably stay,
>but it's too easy to do and a habit I need
>to stop!

I think perhaps these rules should be looked upon as guidelines rather than hard and fast rules. With your weather, does it come as an author directly addressing the reader, or does it involve a character and an effect on that character's behviour? Is the character perhaps battling a snowstorm that will cause exhasution and problems in fighting the monster that's hiding in the rear of the sheltering cave. In other words, is it part of the story?

Perhaps, as the author, you need to know the weather just to get a feel of how your character feels. It can always be deleted in revision.




Weird Jim

"Good reading is the only test of good writing"
Robertson Davies. A voice from the attic 1960