The Song the Rain Sings

In writing the details of this short story, I focused a lot on the details of the scene, the smells and sounds of being in a house during a rainstorm, in order to show the stress the main character feels. ​

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But the main goal was the effective personification of the house and the storm happening at the same time. In writing this particular pathetic fallacy, I wanted the house and the rain to feel more personal and relatable, and describing how the rain lambasts against the house and forcing its bones to creak and moan, helped to serve the purpose of making that stress more intimate.

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What I learned most from this project and publication is not only the amount of work required to write and rewrite a story to make it fit for publications, but also how important it is to get multiple perspectives about a story. Because not everyone experiences things the same, and details are always remembered differently between people who have shared familiar memories. It's important to consider more voices than just those of the editorial variety, as new perspectives highlight places in stories which ought to change during the development/writing process.