A Conversation for Writing Right with Dmitri: Watching Your Symbolism

Food and weather

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minorvogonpoet

I stuffed my novel with food and decided it was a symbol of loving and giving. (As my heroine's family falls to pieces, the meals get more basic, while Francois the chef cooks up grand meals in his restaurant.)

I also stuffed it with descriptions of the weather - so it starts in a hot July and the action finishes in a cold and wet December.

Snag is that isn't all this stuff a bit hackneyed?


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