Nina Munteanu

The Ecology of Story: Revealing Hidden Characters of the Forest Story is place, and place is character—Nina Munteanu I remember a wonderful conversation I had several years ago at a conference with another science fiction writer on weird and wonderful protagon…

The Ecology of Story: revealing hidden characters of the forest #onwriting #nature #forest #characters #ecology #storytelling #writing ninamunteanu.me/2020/04/25/t...

When a Leaf Falls… I love to walk the forest in the winter, whether I’m plowing through fresh deep snow, or crunching over hoarfrost-covered forest litter. Winter is a time for Nature to rearrange and remake itself. …

When a leaf falls ... #Nature #decomposition #saprophytes #forest themeaningofwater.com/2026/01/25/w...

When Snow Plays the Symphony to The Genius of Air Swiss Alps near Zermatt, Switzerland (photo by Nina Munteanu) How full of the creative genius is the air in which these are generated! I should hardly admire more if real stars fell and lodged on m…

When snow plays the symphony to the genius of the air #snow #WINTER #NaturePhotography themeaningofwater.com/2022/02/20/w...

The Sound of Snow… Heavy snowfall where I live in Ontario (photo by Nina Munteanu) I currently live in Ontario, Canada, where the four seasons are still distinct and winter comes with signature cold temperature well …

The sound of #snow ... #WINTER #beauty #NaturePhotography ninamunteanu.me/2023/03/19/t...

How Climate Change Is Altering My Winter Cedar-pine forest covered in new snow of winter, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu) I’m Canadian, and I love the snow. When I grew up in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, we enjoyed a brisk c…

How #climatechange is altering my winter... #WINTER #snow ninamunteanu.me/2024/01/28/h...

Behold, Winter’s Beauty! Fresh snow in a meadow by the Otonabee River, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu) Fresh snow clings to branches in a thicket by the river, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu) Heavy snow…

Behold! Winter's beauty! #WINTER #snow #beauty #NaturePhotography themeaningofwater.com/2023/02/26/b...

When Snow Dazzles… Snow covered fir trees after a fresh snowfall near Wolfville, NS (photo by Nina Munteanu) I grew up in southern Quebec, where the first snow of the season often came from the sky in a thick passion…

For those of you in my old stomps in #Ontario ... #snow #WINTER #snowstorm #NaturePhotography themeaningofwater.com/2022/03/06/w...

Slime molds I've met so far ... (blue one care of New Hampshire Garden Solutions; rest are my photos) all with crazy names like Wolf's Milk Slime, Push Pin Slime and Tree Hair Slime ... #slimemolds #ecology #Nature #NaturePhotography

Thanks! I certainly will!

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Interesting! I haven't run across that one yet but will keep an eye out...

OH! Wonderful! I love them too...

Nature’s Symbiosis and When Fungus Grows on Fungus… Big fungi have little fungi upon their backs to mine them, and little fungi have lesser fungi, and so ad infinitum… (Adapted from Augustus DeMorgan) . Various saprophytic mushrooms (photos by Nina …

Nature’s Symbiosis and When Fungus Grows on Fungus… #fungi #mushrooms #symbiosis #parasitism #mycoparasite themeaningofwater.com/2025/12/14/n...

Cool! When were you here, Michele? ... Time to come for a visit... :)

Oh! I love that too, Squid! ... I may use it in the future... :)

Walking through the forest, veiled in a soft mist, feeds my soul with a delicious energy... #forestwalk #forests #walking #NaturePhotography #WatershedPark #BritishColumbia

The Toothy Grin of the Violet Toothed Polypore (Trichaptum abietinum) A purple string of Violet Toothed Polypore (Trichaptum abietinum) amid dust lichen on a Douglas fir log, Watershed Park, BC (photo by NIna Munteanu) . On a recent walk in my favourite local forest …

Found some gorgeous Violet Toothed Polypores on an old log in the forest ... #fungi #mushrooms #polypores themeaningofwater.com/2026/01/18/t...

Eco-Fiction As Hyperobject: Defining the Undefinable… In two excellent articles in Climate Cultures entitled “A History of Eco-fiction, Part 1 and 2”, eco-fiction author and critic Mary Woodbury starts out with several rather long definitions of eco-f…

Eco-fiction as Hyperobject ... #ecofiction #hyperobject #writing #genre ninamunteanu.me/2026/01/18/e...

Thank you ... This forest displays so many forms of beauty ... each day it is different ... and yet the same...

The forest today ... playful fog and light dance through the trees... #forest #mist #forestwalk #fog #beauty #NaturePhotography

Bristly beard lichen shares a Hawthorn branch with Abraded camouflage lichen ... #lichen #ecosystems #ecology #NaturePhotography #ecology

Don't I wish! A grey squirrel--though not so obvious given he's peeking from behind the tree and you can't see his bushy tail... I've never seen a pine marten, though I hope to sometime...

During yesterday's walk through the forest, I met several old friends... #forestwalk #forest #walking #NaturePhotography

Red Alder: Misunderstood ‘Weed Tree’—Haven for Lichen & Moss Campbell Valley Park: from upper left, forest path, oregon grape, vine maple, upper marsh (photos by Nina Munteanu) . I had just moved back to British Columbia from Ontario and was looking for a fo…

The Red Alder ... A tree study... #trees #TreeStudy #ecology #nature #forests #RedAlder themeaningofwater.com/2025/11/09/r...

Beauty in death ... When a moss-covered cedar stump forms an entire micro-ecosystem of living things... #NaturePhotography #cedar #stump #forests #naturewalks #Nature #photography #ecosystem

Beating Today’s “S” Curve (or Why an Editor is Every Writer’s Best Friend) I’m an ecologist and a limnologist. I conducted environmental research and investigations for over twenty years; as senior scientist I investigated and reported on environmental phenomena to both t…

Why an editor is every writer's best friend... #editing #writing ninamunteanu.me/2014/11/05/b...

The Hidden Costs of Self-Publishing, Part 1: The Solution to “Author Solutions” What do Simon & Schuster, Hay House, Barnes and Noble and Reader’s Digest have in common? Each of these reputable and famous names in publishing has forged a partnership with Author Solutions. …

The hidden costs of self-publishing ... #selfpublishing #WritingCommunity #writers ninamunteanu.me/2015/07/22/t...

Using the Subtext of Body Language in Storytelling Kinesics is the study of “body language”, which explores how movements and gestures project a person’s hidden thoughts. Blushing is an obvious reaction. But more subtle ones can be used. When body …

Using the subtext of body language in #storytelling ... #writing #WritingCommunity #bodylanguage #onwriting #writers ninamunteanu.me/2014/11/27/u...

Walking the Old-Growth Parks in Vancouver Area Rice Lake old growth forest, Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve, BC (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu) Whenever I’m visiting Vancouver (which is most summers), I like to explore several new des…

Walking the old growth parks in the #Vancouver area #BritishColumbia #oldgrowth #forests ... themeaningofwater.com/2024/10/20/w...

The Semi-Colon is Dead; Long Live the Semicolon Ice forms on the shores of Jackson Creek in early winter, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) I’ve been a coaching writers for over two decades. I help fiction and non-fiction writers get published. I teac…

The semi-colon is dead; long live the semicolon ... #semicolon #punctuation #grammar #goodwriting #onwriting #WritingCommunity ninamunteanu.me/2021/02/28/t...