My Blog Is Moving

I now have a new blog site running that will be taking over from Blogger as of this week.  The new blog will be focusing on genres such as fantasy, sci-fi, dystopian and supernatural fiction along with various subjects related to these genres, including history and horror. All the current posts here will still be available for some time yet, however, but I do hope you will all join me in my new home. You can still follow me by email at the new site and keep up to date.

http://narrativespace.wordpress.com/

All the best Xx

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.