Hi folks, and welcome to writing club update number 14 (fourteen!). Opening up to page 14 of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles we find this paradoxically stark and effusive description of a coming storm. Or perhaps all coming storms:
It was like those days when you heard a thunderstorm coming and there was the waiting silence and then the faintest pressure of the atmosphere as the climate blew over the land in shifts and shadows and vapors. And the change pressed at your ears and you were suspended in the waiting time of the coming storm.
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And then the storm. The electric illumination, the engulfments of dark wash and sounding black fell down, shutting in, forever.
Being as much of my bioregion is currently in the middle of a month-long drought, we could do with a “dark wash” right now. I hope you’ve had a decent amount of rain wherever you are, and if you’re also in a drought, I wish for both of us a big beautiful storm soon!
Speaking of welcome deluges, here are our wonderful writers:
Hopefully your writing has felt more like a deluge than a drought, but even the latter can be constructive in its own way. This also goes to any visitors not on this list (welcome!): please feel welcome to reply and comment with your own thoughts and projects!
Oooh art! I love how multimedia you’re getting with this project - writing, art, and music. It sounds like a great way to give yourself lots of different creative outlets for whenever you have time to work on the project.
What was your plan when you decided to do more than writing? Art makes sense (I’m assuming cover art), but I would have never thought to make music associated with my own writing. Do you listen to music while reading usually?
I listen to music while writing, not so much when reading. But I used to make music even before I got into writing novels, and I won’t stop creating music pieces for fun, so doing some specifically for the books was just a natural fit. And it helps me feel like the book universe is more real and multifaceted!