People are obsessed with the weather have you noticed? It isn’t just something to talk about as idle small talk or chitter chatter but rather something that we feel compelled to take note of. This is not really that surprising as though we live in our artificial caves with light and warmth or coolness, little bubbles locked away from the actual atmosphere – we have not been so protected for very long and swaths of people still are not. We evolved to take note of the weather. It with the seasons ruled our lives.

Think on the deities of early cultures and what they represented, Thunder, Rain, Sun, Wind and so on.

With flooding, and droughts and mega storms plaguing our planet currently and the raging debate about climate change and global warming – weather should be something we take seriously.

Get a local newspaper and look up the weather, how will it affect your day, week, year? Find some pictures of extreme weather, spend sometime examining these.

Begin writing about the weather but make it not actually about the weather, use the imagery to represent something else… this could be a life change, a war, an internal battle, the rise and fall of a starr or nation or civilisation and so on.

Now off you go and get writing.