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| Meet the Author |
ChrisChat: Why did you write the book that brought you to MuseItUp Publishing?
Madeleine:
I wrote The Mountain City Bronzes because I was taking a writing course by correspondence and they wanted me to come up with something. I thought of my background in visual arts and the idea just flowed.
ChrisChat:
I’ve taken courses by correspondence and have found them to be helpful. What was the one…or few…parts that still resonate with you today.
Madeleine:
I think as far as correspondence courses go, there is no competition so you can think freely and so of course, talking of resonating, your ideas can go right inside you and anything that appeals to you can come out. The bad thing about correspondence courses is that there is no critique other than from the teacher. I’m getting way off track here, but as far as resonating, you have to reach people to resonate with them, too. It’s not just the story.
ChrisChat:
I’ve talked with MIU’s cover artists and I have no idea how they pull visuals together. My mind works in words and emotions. How does your background in visual arts help…impact…your writing?
Madeleine:
I’m a visual person, which I guess most people are. I like to ‘see’ my scenes before I write them and sometimes I just write down what I visualize. That’s at the beginning then I go into re-writes which is a little harder. I don’t think my background in visual arts helped or hurt me in writing but there are some people which I met in painting that I’d like to turn into characters. That would be fun.
Once again, Chris, you have showed me something about a MIU author I didn't know. I'm going to FB and tweet this!
It's all in the openness of our Musers 🙂
Interesting, Madeleine about seeing your scenes before you write them. I can see the scenes from my mysteries, but I think it's the writing that comes first… I'll have to think about that. Now I don't know…lol. But I do visualize everything in my writing.
Thank you, Susan
I thought it very interesting that you can visualize your scenes before writing them. I'm an artist, and I don't do that! I do see them, but usually after I write them. I think. LOL Now I'm really going to have to concentrate and see if that's true…do I see what I wrate, or do I write what I see? Hmmm…
Madeleine, I don't think of myself as particularly visual, but I, too, often "run" my scenes like a movie in my head. I'm heavily invested in the dialog, but I do have to know where everything is — all the furniture, the layout of the rooms in the house, etc. For some reason, if I can't mentally 'walk around' in the scene, I can't write it.
I'm totally word oriented, so hearing about visualizing a scene is alien ground. What is it like to "see" this different reality? — Hmmm, that might be an idea for you to play with.
Pauline
I'm with Madeleine, visual all the way. I tend to see my scenes as movie clips. Then I play, tweak, replay, tweak again, until its exactly what I hoped for.
Thanks for dropping by…I'm trying to figure out if I'm visual, like walking through the story. I think that's how I recently tried writing a shot story.