Winter, the most misunderstood season

 

Howdoes winter affect you and your writing?

If you’re awriter, you are familiar with the fact that the seasons are metaphors for thestages of life. Winter is the time of scarcity, a time of stasis, a time forsilence, and a time for reflection. The repetition in that last sentence isboth rhetoric and an echo of Ecclesiastics. With the dying of the light comesreckoning, and we are uncomfortable with it, but for reasons I think most peopleignore.

 

I’d argue that weha...