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Kettles and Moraines
Where I grew up in Wisconsin, we had kettles and moraines in our topography. I thought this was common knowledge for all kinds of people in our country, and other countries. However, many people don't know what they are. Moraines are debris fields created as glaciers move and leave behind when the glacier melts and recedes. Sound familiar? The Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present.
Kettles are depressions or holes in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are formed as a result of blocks of dead ice left behind by retreating glaciers, which become surrounded by sediment deposited by meltwater streams as there is increased friction. The ice becomes buried in the sediment and when the ice melts, a depression is left called a kettle hole, creating a dimpled appearance on the outwash plain. Water may fill kettles and become a kettle lake or hole.
We often create lands or landscapes, even worlds while we write. While you're creating that world, is it possible to create something unique, or are we borrowing bits and pieces of worlds we know? Does it matter to your reader? More importantly, does it matter to the story line or are you enjoying painting the picture for your reader? I feel we should enjoy our writing, even if you are creating a death star. If you don't enjoy the work, why would a reader?
Write on and enjoy!
This month's question: What was your favorite world you've built?
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This month's question: What was your favorite world you've built?
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Last month's "Action/Adventure Newsletter (March 13, 2024)" question: Have you written stories about vacation adventures? Were they yours?
oldgreywolf scribbles  : Vacation? That's a good one.
tj ~ endeavors to persevere!  : Yes I have written some stories about vacation adventures, but no they were fiction, not based on my vacations.
Bonnie8910 : No, my characters don't have time for vacations. They're too busy trying to stop the world from ending.
s : Yes. Always a good way for horror to work - a person in a strange place where they don't know anyone.
Khola Mousethyme : I've written short stories about vacations but they weren't mine. Maybe someday I'll write about my aunt's house and going there every summer vacation when I was growing up....
Scarypotato-doing bettertoday : No, the ones I could write about are too dramatic and bitter memories. The vacations I've enjoyed are probably too dull for anyone but me to savor.
Ashok Banerjee : It's a great idea to write a Spring break adventure. It will be an adventure story with a sphere of love and romance.
Tannus : I have written about caving, and I have been caving. I did do a story on Archeology, but I have never done that adventure. I would love to though.
Fernando : I did this as an assignment from my therapist. It involved a fictional dragon named Fulvin who went on a camping trip. The whole point of the assignment was to have a calm and entertaining experience as during this time a lot of 'non-favorable events' were happening. The experience at first made me sad, but after reading it again it created a peaceful and enlightening scene for myself. I always enjoy making short stories about topics I wouldn't normally think about, I feel it is important for every writer to do this at least once a month to have a surreal experience.
Monty  : Am sure that I have and did not have to daydream about a crazy spill.
brom21 : This was such a sobering, encouraging NL! I stepped away from writing altogether for about nine months because I did not take rests. I didn't write a thing! This was partially due to me getting rejected by three traditional publishers- which is not very many as it is. lol. We're supposed to write everyday, but how many of do that? Humans need rest. That is why the seventh day is supposed to be a day of rest. Thanks again!
Thanks to everyone for your responses! Leger~
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