Let's Build a World: Day 1 - Climate

[ladyseishou]

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

- Mark Twain



Welcome to Day 1 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. To begin, read Day 1: Climate & Variety from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Then get out your notebook and complete the exercise:

...write down all the different climates you can think of-- if you need to just say a city name, do it. Sometimes "Seattle" is more evocative than "northern damp temperate climate." Write these names down in a list.

Then, go through that list and write one or two words that describe how that climate, either the word itself or the way the place itself may have made you feel, if you've been there before. Try to stick to abstract adjectives; emotional words, if you can, but nouns are also okay.

You might find the following websites helpful for completing this exercise:

National Geographic: Visions of Earth - wonderful photographs!

World Climates - descriptions of Earth's climate zones.

Climate History - description of the world's climate through the ages - very cool maps!

Well, how did everyone do? Please feel free to share your lists or any additional links that you found interesting or helpful! See you tomorrow!

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My answers - 15 minutes!

[ladyseishou]

Singapore (Moist Tropical Climate) - alive, heavy, steamy
Arizona, Southwest, US (Desert) - brittle, thin, sharp
Chamonix, Alps, France (Highland/Alpine) - old, glacier, fragile
Daytona Beach, Florida, US (Ocean) - eternal, primal, erosion
Indiana, US (Grassland) - flat, open, lonely

note: all my answers are from my limited perspective and should not be read as anything more than that about these very beautiful places of the world.

[cheyinka]

I still have my weather-mood lists from last year, so I'm saving those - I couldn't think of a lot of different places that I'd been, so I did it on a cold/hot/temperate rainy/dry/constant axis.

I'm curious to see whether anyone else takes such a... systematic approach. :)