If you live in America, you prob'ly dressed up for the Fourth of July yesterday, in bright shades of red, white, and blue. On our flag, these colors symbolize, respectively, the bravery, purity, and loyalty of the men and women who make America great. In other places, they symbolize other things: red means 'hot' on the tap, 'stop' on the traffic light, and 'angry' on those mad-faced emojis. Blue means cold, or sad.
Colors and shades are powerful symbols: black or red can symbolize evil; yellow, cowardice; green, jealousy; purple, royalty. Darkness is bad and light is good. Read a favorite book, and the bad guy is likely not dressed in white. In the direst moments, the sun is not shining.
You prob'ly do this instinctively in your own writing, highlighting blue skies, scarlet blood, gray hair, and dark dungeons. Happy moments are brighter and warmer; sad ones are in shadow. In the most intense moments, colors stab like bayonets: blood, stone, grass, cloth, trees, and sun or moon all contribute to the suspense and danger, not in reality, but simply by existing in your character's sight, as another piece of chaos.
Notice when you use colors and light in your stories. When do they symbolize your character's physical situation or mental state? When do they hint at the presence of something darker, or at happy moments ahead?
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