A sense of place can ground your story, or create a mood, or give it something really unique. Unfortunately, in an era in which we are all way too online, it’s easy to neglect this, and stick our characters in a weird featureless void. So how can we escape the set design from THX-1138? One way is by engaging with nature. Here to talk about it is Ashely Adams.
Recommended Reading:
Annie Dillard “Total Eclipse”
Aldo Leopold Sand County Almanac
Ursula K. Le Guin
Jeff Vandermeer
Andrew F. Sullivan The Marigold, Waste
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Octavia Butler’s Parable books
Beowulf (no really)
Gwendolyn Kiste, The Rust Maidens
Nicole Walker,” Microclimates Lower Sonoran”
Brooke Bolander The Only Harmless Great Thing
Rachel Carson
John Brunner The Sheep Look Up
Anne McCaffrey’s Pern Series
Wayne Barlowe’s Expedition
Peter Matthiessen The Snow Leopard
Aimee Nezhukumatathil “The Soils I Have Eaten”
Caitlin Horrocks “The Sleep”
BK Loren Animal Mineral Radical
Sherwin Bitsui Flood Song
Ernestine Hayes “Winter in Lingit Brings Magpies and Ravens”
John D’Agata About a Mountain
Touch Grass