My brain, it is weird. ^_^ Opening a book with the weather...
One of Patricia Wrede's blog posts mentioned the rule "Never open a book with the weather." I spent a good couple of minutes thinking of different ways that different sorts of weather might move the cover of a book, how indeed many of these ways are likely to be damaging as they are likely to be wet or possibly blow the entire thing into the dirt or a puddle and any notes tucked into it run the risk of being lost if it was via wind, and does this line assume natural weather or are we talking about weather workers in fantasy here? This is probably good advice. If it's not directly raining or windy, just being left out in a field overnight will soak it anyway, and then the pages ripple and push the cover open a bit, but I'm not sure it'd be enough to READ anything, so... yes, this is reasonably sound advice, but can I think of any situations where it wouldn't hold up?
Then I realized she's just referring to the first (opening) paragraphs of a book. Don't start a story with the weather. Oh.
Then I realized she's just referring to the first (opening) paragraphs of a book. Don't start a story with the weather. Oh.