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Describe a daily task, journey or ritual. For example: making breakfast, taking the bus to work, or reading a chapter before you go to bed. Explain how the summer weather affects your mood or the task. Choose sunny or cloudy, temperate or hot, clear or rainy weather - whichever will create the most conflict for you or your character in the story.

What about the weather makes the routine easier or harder? Does your mood have a ripple affect to other people or pets? Let us know what kind of weather you/your character would prefer by describing in detail what is uncomfortable or inconvenient about the weather in your story.

Example - Short Fiction:
My lover can't live without his oatmeal in the morning. Chris has his clockwork routine. Oatmeal is step five. One: get up. Two: make the bed. Three: carpet calisthenics. Four: get dressed. Five: boil oats. This morning it was ninety degrees at 7 am, maybe warmer indoors with no A/C. At 7:10, I edged by Chris as he did push-ups in the hall, in order to get to the staircase. "Give me some room for Christ's sake," he said. I just looked at him in surprise. My lover's T-shirt hung from his frame, dripping sweat like I'd never seen. Was he grunting louder than usual? I decided to ignore his outburst and stepped downstairs for coffee and toast. It was then I heard his shower. How odd. He'd showered last night. Typically, Chris was Mr. Water Conservation. I'd kid him about it when he came downstairs. I looked at my watch. He was going to be late. I started his water boiling and threw in the oats. The kitchen sweltered. A single bead of sweat trickled down from my temple. I scooped the cooked oats into a bowl, took out the milk and brown sugar, and put it on the table. A growl came from behind me, "Why the hell did you do that?" I walked to the next room and flipped on the A/C. Within ten minutes, the sweet man I knew sat in the kitchen.
(-R.C.)