Getting Visual
A cool thing about Love Inspired is that authors are asked to give input into the covers of their books.
The uncool thing is that I'm so NOT visual.
Some writers have pictures of their scenes and characters taped to the walls. I don't. I have a vague idea, so when I was asked to supply pictures for cover ideas, I was befuddled. Thank goodness I have a friend who is the Queen of Visuality (you know who you are!). She supplied me with links to helpful websites where I could brainstorm who exactly my characters look like.
Are you visual? Do you already have cover ideas? If you were a character, how would you be physically described?
The uncool thing is that I'm so NOT visual.
Some writers have pictures of their scenes and characters taped to the walls. I don't. I have a vague idea, so when I was asked to supply pictures for cover ideas, I was befuddled. Thank goodness I have a friend who is the Queen of Visuality (you know who you are!). She supplied me with links to helpful websites where I could brainstorm who exactly my characters look like.
Are you visual? Do you already have cover ideas? If you were a character, how would you be physically described?
Comments
if I decribed myself it'd be some feature and then some quirk or some nervous habit or something of that sort :-D
You'll have a beautiful cover. I just know it. :)
So fun to be walking through this process together!
LOL Terri! That's a good thing.
Awww, thanks Karen. :-) It's nice when things just come to us, right?
LOL Jessica, that will all come in handy! So no help for you! *grin*
Katie, I know, isn't it? :-) We're pretty much at the same exact place, which is really cool!
And my character would be gorgeous. So beautiful she'd make your eyes hurt whenever you looked at her. Completely cracking up w/ myself right now. You realize (I hope...hope) I'm kidding. I think I'd describe my character as comfortable in her skin and laughing. That's how I want to be remembered...just need to work on that first one some more.
~ Wendy
I tend to have photographs for most of my characters. 'Casting' characters is a fun part of the process for me.
I LOVE knowing what my characters look like from the get go. In fact, I don't know if I could write about them otherwise. It's part of their characterization for me. I guess that makes me really vain, come to think of it. Snirt
Hmm. If someone were to describe me as a character? Blond, blue/green eyes, a dimple in my right cheek, and CAMERA SHY in a big way. So good luck getting any head shots of this girl. LOL!!
Thanks for your wise comments on my controversial post yesterday! I appreciate your insights.
I enjoyed reading your post and having to work my brain a bit. :-)
LOL Patti! Well, I don't think I have to design my own, I just have to give the designers ideas on what the book is about since they don't read the book themselves.
Awww! Anita, that does sound like you and I like how you mix the physical with the personality. :-)
Wendy, you're too funny. :-) I'd like to be comfortable in my own skin too. Sometimes I am and then when I'm not I realize what I'm missing. I'm sure you're closer to it than you realize. :-)
Erica, lol, lucky you to like casting!
True, Loree. A cover is so important in giving an idea of what the book is about.
Hmmm, Tana, any clue why? Do you mean you just don't "see" things right half the time? Verrry interesting. *grin*
Thanks for the nice oomments today on Family Fountain. And I can't wait to get your book. My wife Cheryl is reading many of the books by fiction authors I've met on the blogs and FB! She's loving them. wb
Good luck with your cover. Can't wait to see it one of these days.
Describe myself? Small, curvaceous, striking...hey I have to make this good. :)
Have fun with yours. :)
I know I'm very late to the party, but congrats on selling your book! So happy for you!