Post by account_disabled on Dec 17, 2023 4:07:48 GMT
An element that I have always found curious and also in a certain sense difficult within a novel is the presence of specific vegetation and appropriate animals. Because it's not enough to write that a character enters a forest, picks a flower, meets a herd, leaving the reader to imagine them. Obviously it is not always necessary to write the exact floral or animal species, but a writer cannot hide behind this excuse, since a story requires details that make it complete. Furthermore, it could really be influential on the progress of events to know if there are specific plants or certain animals in a particular region.
I have always had the problem of knowing when to sow wheat, what kind of trees can grow in a certain place, what insects can populate it, and so on, in case these details were important in my story. And they can be. Flora and fauna, therefore, contribute to recreating a setting. Right plants and animals in the right place As I just mentioned, in a novel some details about Phone Number Data vegetation and animal species can be truly fundamental. In some literary genres, then, they are of undisputed importance for the purposes of the setting, as they make the story more realistic. Western: in the Far West we talk about herds of cows, bison, buffalo, horses.
Knowing when and how the herds are moved, where the animals can find food, how they are kept in the stables are notions that a western writer must know and above all insert into his scenes. Adventure: try reading a novel by Salgari. Novels set in Africa, America, Asia. How much documentation was behind it! Jungles described in great detail, with appropriate names. The writer couldn't have done otherwise, since those exotic names contributed to the credible realization of the scenarios described. Historical novel: I have read historical novels in which the writer had knowledge of crops and livestock. How and when to sow a plant, when it germinates and when it produces fruit. How to look after animals, when to shear sheep, etc. This is all information that is necessary for a given story, as it is part of the environment described, and cannot be left to chance.
I have always had the problem of knowing when to sow wheat, what kind of trees can grow in a certain place, what insects can populate it, and so on, in case these details were important in my story. And they can be. Flora and fauna, therefore, contribute to recreating a setting. Right plants and animals in the right place As I just mentioned, in a novel some details about Phone Number Data vegetation and animal species can be truly fundamental. In some literary genres, then, they are of undisputed importance for the purposes of the setting, as they make the story more realistic. Western: in the Far West we talk about herds of cows, bison, buffalo, horses.
Knowing when and how the herds are moved, where the animals can find food, how they are kept in the stables are notions that a western writer must know and above all insert into his scenes. Adventure: try reading a novel by Salgari. Novels set in Africa, America, Asia. How much documentation was behind it! Jungles described in great detail, with appropriate names. The writer couldn't have done otherwise, since those exotic names contributed to the credible realization of the scenarios described. Historical novel: I have read historical novels in which the writer had knowledge of crops and livestock. How and when to sow a plant, when it germinates and when it produces fruit. How to look after animals, when to shear sheep, etc. This is all information that is necessary for a given story, as it is part of the environment described, and cannot be left to chance.