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  1. Marius Av

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    Too much rain?

    Discussion in 'Setting Development' started by Marius Av, Aug 25, 2017.

    When I write, I like the idea of rain. It makes me very calm and I don't hesitate to use this in my creations. I don't know if the readers will be a little upset by the fact that rains a lot, so that's why i'm asking you. It might get boring to see every page like that, I imagine.

    My solution is to create a world where the conditions makes rain happen very frequently, not because the sake of it.

    What do you think?
     
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    Short answer: Assuming the reader finds repetitive references to rain annoying, the more you do to justify its existence the more annoying it will become. Gas on the fire. It's not about what makes sense, it's what the reader finds annoying. If something sucks, the last thing you want to do is explain to the reader why it doesn't suck. But if written well enough, the rain thing might not be an issue.
     
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    So England? :p


    How important to the story is it to mention the constant grey clouds? If you kept mentioning it for the sake of mentioning it then yep, I'd get annoyed. If the story somehow revolved around rain then that's a different story.
     
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    You don't live in Scotland, do you? :eek:
     
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    I guess my main issue it that if it rains all the time, would your characters even be noticing it? "Jane was waiting for me in the rain" isn't something someone who lives in Raintown is going to think or say.
     
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    That's a very good point. Don't make the mistake of trying to force an atmosphere on the reader. That's called self-indulgence. Just tell us it rains all the time and leave it at that.
     
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    Thank you for the answers. I think the way that @Laurin Kelly showed me will work, because I kept mentioning everytime that's raining. By the way, Scotland would be like a dreamland for me :p
     
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    Roland Emmerich gets away with it, I don't see why you can't.
     

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