If you need an atmosphere in your story, then don't write about the big things, focus all your energy on the small, seemingly insignificant things and the atmosphere will come waltzing along with you. Nice day at the cliffside with a thoughtful atmosphere? Don't write about the fluffy clouds and sapphire sky. Write about the little daisy in the characters hand, swaying in the breeze. Focus on how the petals move, how that matches what the character is feeling, on the specs of pollen flying off the flower and into the sky. Dystopian feel? Forget the crumbling buildings or bodies strewn across the floor, they can go to hell. Pour detail in the mangy cat rummaging in a rusty, rotting garbage can. How does it pierce the silence? what does the cat look like? how does that tie into what happened there? Don't go to town on the descriptions though. Don't write pages about the colour of the flower or fur. Just look at the smaller picture, the larger one is overwhelming.
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Writing Prompts for yall
Storie breviJust a series of writing prompts that come to mind, all fresh from ma brain. But since I have no creativity and LOOOOOTS of ideas, please feel free to use and manipulate them to your will, I'm excited to read them all. ENJOY! Note: updates will come...
