Get it here!
https://books2read.com/Dreamcatcher-Barbara-Baldwin
If you’re
like me, you’re tired of hearing about the Covid virus, quarantine and food
shortages. You’re ready to get out – ANYWHERE – just to feel like your life is
your own again. On May 3, Diane Bator wrote on the BWL blog about some of the trouble some writers are
having staying on track. It seems ridiculous that with all the hours in a day
we can’t sit down and crank out novel after novel. While I should be writing, my creative
efforts have shifted. Instead of the computer, I have been sitting at the
sewing machine finishing some quilt tops that had been started, or purchased, some
time ago. As I cut and sew, it is impossible to miss my use of color. No pale
or pastel colors for this quilter and that made me think more about the use of
color in writing (and life).
Remember
when you got that first box of crayons for Kindergarten? Big chunky colors –
red, blue, green, yellow, black, brown, purple and orange. As we colored, we’d
pick yellow for the sun and green for the grass because colors often cause us
to think of particular physical things. As our pictures progressed through the years,
we probably added some orange to the sun; red if there was a sunset, and the
grass had patches of brown or blue-green and colorful little flowers began
sprouting everywhere.
Color has also often been used in
song titles. Though using particular titles may be dating me, do you recognize
“A Yellow Submarine”, “Blue Suede Shoes”, or “Purple Rain”?
But colors can also make us think
of non-nouns; in other words things like emotions. Red might communicate anger
or heat; whereas pink, which is a shade of red, is a more gentle color; perhaps
like lavender. Green is often the color of envy or jealousy; yellow might make
one think of a cowardly person. There are plenty of idioms that use color – “the
pot calling the kettle black”, “blue in the face” or “white knuckled.” Yet no
one color is exclusive to a particular arena. For example, red can be both “red
tape” and the “red carpet” and those two expressions can be opposites rather
than synonyms.
I urge
you to try a writing exercise using color to describe something not normally
associated with color? What color is rain or the blowing wind? How would you
paint hunger or homelessness or grief? How would you describe a rushing river
with color?
My
writing is similar to my quilting – full of color and no two are alike. I write
contemporary and historical, time travel and short story. I invite you to visit
http://www.bookswelove.com/romance-authors/baldwin-barbara/
for a full listing of my novels with Books We Love.
Here’s to our early release…or at least
to the opening of the local liquor stores!
Barb
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Showing posts with label Montana territory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Montana territory. Show all posts
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Color my world conflicted
Labels:
color,
color idioms,
Dreamcatcher,
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green with envy,
Historical romance,
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