Environmental Determinism (essay)

Full disclosure: I wrote this. Yes, I am reviewing my own work. But hear me out... This essay represents one of those pivotal moments for me as a writer. I was just finishing my Master of Arts in Professional Writing, and this essay was part of the final thesis to be submitted. In many ways, writing it helped me identify what it was about stories about the environment, and the Arctic in particular, that I found so appealing. Applying the theory of environmental determinism to works such as Frankenstein, and, in turn, my own novels, helped me develop the environment as a character, and in doing so, my human characters became more - well - human. That's why I have no problem rating my own work, and even less problem giving it five stars. ;-)