Yes, your cover artist's description is quite a similar process to what I go through too. :)
And I really didn't mean to say by talking about making the style or method invisible that I meant doing photorealism; that's yet another style in itself, and is frequently quite intrusive on its own. I didn't express myself very well there, perhaps. What I meant more to say was that there are any number of unique styles of both writing and art; ideally everyone finds their own unique style or voice. But I wish for myself, is to find the best way to express that style so that it is inseparable, seamless with the intent of the story or image; so the two aspects are melded so flawlessly that you couldn't imagine the story being told in quite that way or painted the same way by anyone else. Or even having the story or image possibly told by anyone else; the overall result stands as such a unified creation that concept and execution are inseparable. Of course different people would tell the same basic story in different ways or paint the same subject in different ways and that's all good.
I guess I just want a story or image presented in a gutsy genuine way, from the heart, rather than filtered through some trendy facade as I have seen so many artists do. This is not to say _I'm_ any great shakes, mind you, just expressing my own craving for better quality out of myself, which is a very different thing from the more painful realities I face in my own efforts. :/
And I also didn't meant to imply that you yourself write convoluted or confusing prose; I don't find that true at all. (This from me, who started crying on... what was it? page 5 or 11? of The Broken Crown. Had to put the book down because I was in a restaurant and was getting all emotional). Good god, I said to myself, this is definitiely a woman writer, she has kids and she writes from the gut. I LIKE that, and it seems to be darned hard to find. :)
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Date: 2004-07-15 09:54 pm (UTC)And I really didn't mean to say by talking about making the style or method invisible that I meant doing photorealism; that's yet another style in itself, and is frequently quite intrusive on its own. I didn't express myself very well there, perhaps. What I meant more to say was that there are any number of unique styles of both writing and art; ideally everyone finds their own unique style or voice. But I wish for myself, is to find the best way to express that style so that it is inseparable, seamless with the intent of the story or image; so the two aspects are melded so flawlessly that you couldn't imagine the story being told in quite that way or painted the same way by anyone else. Or even having the story or image possibly told by anyone else; the overall result stands as such a unified creation that concept and execution are inseparable. Of course different people would tell the same basic story in different ways or paint the same subject in different ways and that's all good.
I guess I just want a story or image presented in a gutsy genuine way, from the heart, rather than filtered through some trendy facade as I have seen so many artists do. This is not to say _I'm_ any great shakes, mind you, just expressing my own craving for better quality out of myself, which is a very different thing from the more painful realities I face in my own efforts. :/
And I also didn't meant to imply that you yourself write convoluted or confusing prose; I don't find that true at all. (This from me, who started crying on... what was it? page 5 or 11? of The Broken Crown. Had to put the book down because I was in a restaurant and was getting all emotional). Good god, I said to myself, this is definitiely a woman writer, she has kids and she writes from the gut. I LIKE that, and it seems to be darned hard to find. :)