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It was a dark and 5 You may say that every story needs
1 a setting and that weather is part of the
stormy night. setting. That is true, by the way, but it

isn’t the whole deal. There’s much more
2 What, you’ve heard that one? Right, to it. Here’s what I think: weather is
Snoopy. And Charles Schulz had Snoopy never just weather. It’s never just rain.
write it because it was a cliché. It had And that goes for snow, sun, warmth,
been one for a very long time back when cold, and sleet too.
your favorite beagle decided to become a
6 But let’s think about rain for a
writer. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a famous moment.
Victorian novelist, actually did begin a
7 Rain can be a plot device; it can
(bad) novel with “It was a dark and make the characters seek shelter, get
stormy night.” And now you know stranded or lost or stuck somewhere,

everything you need to know about dark waiting for it to end. This can be very
and stormy nights. Except for one thing. handy for an author. Rain can also bring

3 Why? along tons of atmosphere. It’s more
4 You wondered that too, didn’t you? mysterious, murkier, more isolating than
Why would a writer want the wind most other weather conditions. (Fog is
howling and the rain pouring down? good too, of course.) Then there is the

Victorian If something is Victorian, it is in atmosphere Atmosphere is the overall tone or
the romantic style of England’s 19th-century mood of a place or situation.
Victorian era.

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