The book covers so inspire me. I always create a cover when my book idea is stuck in my head. I go online and search for the genre or other series I like. It must be something from my past art classes. To other writers, it may make your project feel real if you create your own. Good luck. I love the Lunar Chronicles Series covers. The use of Red and the Font selection were perfect. I wanted everything white with just touches of color for my Children of the Moon Queen series.
I want to be as good as Louise Penny when I grow up. Her Armand Gamache in the Three Pines mysteries series is novel poetry. The way she describes food makes you hungry, and it slows the scene down just enough to let your imagination join the party. You are sitting beside her characters in the same bistro.
Still Life, “They ate by candlelight, the candles of all shapes and sizes flickering around the kitchen. Their plates were piled high with turkey and chestnut stuffing, candied yams and potatoes, peas and gravy.”
A Fatal Grace, “Little Rose Lévesque stared up at the bûche de Noël, the traditional Christmas log, made of rich cake and coated with the thickest of icing, her tiny, chubby fingers curling over the tablecloth embroidered with
Santa Claus. . .”
I was watching YouTube and found –
When I saw this sculpture, I held my breath. She was magnificent. The idea that something this beautiful was trapped under the water off the Coast of Africa excited me to no end. Inanna was born along with Oren and all my other characters.
DAMIEN HIRST Venice Exhibition 2017 was the creative spark from one artist inspiring the next. You have to go out and watch “The Wreck of the Unbelievable” on Netflix (I think still available). Maybe you’ll be inspired too.
WRITE AS RAIN: When I’m writing, I’m so busy trying to get the action going I forget to set the scene; weather, temperature, what they need to wear, etc. I highlight in blue on the second draft; how I have described the scene at each scene change. I must ensure my reader can taste, touch, see, hear, smell, and sense in every way possible. It’s always a work in progress.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ‘The Rainy Day. ‘
My life is cold, dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Okay, Henry, let me practice:
The Past clung to the evergreens like raindrops, afraid of falling, disappearing into the earth.
The elderly woman’s dark leathery skin sagged like a closed beach umbrella waiting for the sun.
Book Covers I Love: The book covers so inspire me. I always create a cover when my book idea is stuck in my head. I go online and search f...
