Are you really looking?

Today, it rained.  A heavy down pour - the kind you get when it thunders.  It got me thinking about creativity and the weather - how it's used to portray mood or overall tone in a story.  I have to admit, rainy days make me more creative.  They always have.  I grew up in Wales, so as you can imagine, I had an abundance of creative days.  Rain can be an agent of beauty, bringing out the true colour in the rocks or pebbles on a beach.  Mountains in Snowdonia are often shrouded in a dense cloud that is ever changing.  Parting mists that reveal the highest of the peaks, allowing one brief glimpse of the mountains soul or of the aquamarine sky beyond.
     I once heard someone declare, " If you've seen one mountain, you've seen them all."  How wrong they were.  Weather and seasons change a scene everyday, so it adds to the essence of a location.  Every place has it's own story, geology or people.  So, if you think that every mountain range is like any other, or that the view from your own window is the same every time you look out...well then, perhaps, you're not really looking. 

Coming Soon...Ramble away!

Hi and welcome to Narrative Space.  It's a place where I post my recent work, thoughts and general observations about the world, stories and books that I like.  I have a tendency to sometimes to go off on surreal tangents - so this is the place for that too. My reclusive ramblings germinate at those times of the day or night when you're just falling asleep.  Your mind is working overtime, churning out endless moments of bazaar contemplation. Ideas come to you when you should be sleeping.  We have all experienced this.  It can be a burden or revelation depending on how much chocolate and caffeine you have consumed that day.

   Well this happens to me a lot and yes, I consume far too much caffeine, or so it seems.  For recording the things that make sense I now keep a notebook by the bedside and in my bag.  Can't be caught short without a pad n' pen.  My husband once said that he could do with some kind of pen drive that he can plug into his head and record his ideas for music or lyrics.  What an idea!

Note to self :- must invent brain pen drive ( but I bet some brilliant scientist already has)