Touch Grass

Rite Gud

A sense of place can ground your story, or create a mood, or give it something really unique. Unfortunately, in an era in which we are all way too online, it’s easy to neglect this, and stick our characters in a weird featureless void. So how can we escape the set design from THX-1138? One way is by engaging with nature. Here to talk about it is Ashely Adams.

Recommended Reading:

• Annie Dillard “Total Eclipse”
• Aldo Leopold Sand County Almanac
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Jeff Vandermeer
• Andrew F. Sullivan The Marigold, Waste
• Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Octavia Butler’s Parable books
• Beowulf (no really)
• Gwendolyn Kiste, The Rust Maidens
• Nicole Walker,” Microclimates Lower Sonoran”
• Brooke Bolander The Only Harmless Great Thing
• Rachel Carson
• John Brunner The Sheep Look Up
• Anne McCaffrey’s Pern Series
• Wayne Barlowe’s Expedition
• Peter Matthiessen The Snow Leopard
• Flyway
• Ecotone
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil “The Soils I Have Eaten”
• Caitlin Horrocks “The Sleep”
• BK Loren Animal Mineral Radical
• Sherwin Bitsui Flood Song
• Ernestine Hayes “Winter in Lingit Brings Magpies and Ravens”
• John D’Agata About a Mountain

About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.

The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.

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