- Nature is aesthetically pleasing.
It makes your story that much more alive. Rich descriptions of nature as the characters interact with it throughout the plot (whatever plot that is) are always a thrill to read and refreshes the reader.
- Nature is imaginable.
We are always interacting with and around nature, even when we do not realize it. When we read nature in a story, we can easily envision what is being described. This paints wonderful pictures in our heads and makes it easy for the author to convey into our minds the same images he/her envisioned.
- Nature draws a reader into a story.
Unless we can (as the main character of the story does) feel the texture of the tree, smell the pine needles, feel the rich soft grass and dirt, hear the babbling brook, listen to the birds and insects chirp, watch the setting sun shaft through the limbs of the trees, then we won’t be attracted to the story. When these descriptions are included, we will be drawn in to experience the story ourselves.
- Nature defines the scene.
How can you describe what a scene looks like, feels like, sounds like, smells like, and tastes like without any nature at all? The only way to describe an environment of a story is by using nature.
- Nature is very interactive.
It is easy for us to picture a main character walking his horse down a cobblestone path through the woods in the late afternoon because even though we might not have done so ourselves, we have felt stone before. We have walked through woods before. And, we have seen the late afternoon sun shaft through the limbs of a small forest.
- Nature is all around us.
Have you ever tried reading a story in an airport and then out in a park near a garden? Why is it you could visualize the story so much better in the park? Well, there could be thousands of reasons, everything from being nervous about your flight to the shouts and conversations of others in the airport. Yet, as nature draws us into the story, we generally find that we can understand it much better if we are around nature ourselves.
- Without nature, stories don’t make sense.
A story without nature is a story of confusion.
- Without nature, stories are dull.
If the characters never interact with nature, the story will not be imaginative.
- Without nature, stories cannot be visualized.
It’s impossible to truly be able see the paintings of the story without descriptions of nature.
- Without nature, your book will have all the negative reviews.
No one likes a story that doesn’t have nature described throughout it.
Your fellow writer,
Joshua Reynolds
