Bookish Thursday - What Happened In Beulah - Guest Post by Author Christy Scott Cashman
I was lucky enough to be able to get a guest post from the author, Christy Scott Cashman - all about nature in writing. Enjoy! Nature is so magical to me. I love John Muir's quote, "When one tugs on a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." I find that so true, and writing about setting becomes a minefield of adding depth and fun detail to a story. Incorporating indigenous vegetation, flowers, and wildlife becomes an interesting challenge, and in the process of researching them, I learn so much. I draw so much inspiration from this process. To me, it's one of the pleasures of writing. It gives me joy to choose a world and then describe it based on where it is on the planet. For my first novel, "The Truth About Horses," the world was horses. Barns, the way they smell with horses in them. The sounds of horses munching hay in their stalls, the beam of light that shines through a dust-covered spiderweb high in the beams. They all ...
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