GenresFiction
Eco-fiction
Landscape as character; climate as plot.
Eco-fiction treats the living world as part of the plot rather than as a view from a window. Climate, extinction, weather that has stopped behaving, a river, a farm, a city that floods: the environment is pressing on the people, and the people are pressing back, sometimes without knowing it. Readers who pick up these books are often already worried, so they don't need a lecture in the voice of a concerned narrator.
What they do need is a human story that couldn't happen in a different landscape. Work is a good way in. People who fish, farm, build, insure, or simply try to keep a house dry are already in the subject. You can write grief for a place, and you can write the practical business of adapting, and you can be angry. Just let the anger belong to characters who have a stake, and give the natural world enough detail that it feels observed rather than recruited as a symbol.
The kinds of book inside it
Climate
A changed or changing climate organises the story, and the book should show the effects at human scale rather than only in speeches about the future.
Wilderness
Wild country is the setting and sometimes the test, and it deserves to be written as itself, not as a scenic reward for the hero.
Solastalgia
The pain of a familiar place becoming unfamiliar is the feeling at the centre, and it works best when the place is known in detail.
When you want a first sketch, Storywell can draft a story summary in this vein. You are still the one who writes the book. Compose an idea.