Welcome to another WWW!
Today book cover designer and author, Keri Neal, is visiting to share a bit about being a hands-on writer & being creative.
Take it away, Keri!
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Idle Hands
I am a hands-on writer.
I mean that literally: my writing is at its best
when I am doing something with my hands. I’m pretty sure this is linked to the
brain somehow. Maybe the part of my brain that controls motor functions is near
the part that controls imaginative processes. I’m not really sure, I failed
Human Anatomy in college. Twice. So I’m going to go on pretending this is true
and hopefully not offend any neurologists who may be reading this.
My favorite thing in the whole wide world is to
curl up with a book and block out the world. Unfortunately if I’m reading, I’m
not writing. I know people who can read, bake a cake, study French and run a
household all while working on several manuscripts at once. I do not work this
way. I write one manuscript at a time, and I can’t read anything new before
that manuscript is published.
If writing is the only creative thing I did I
would absolutely crazy. Thanks to my lovely grandmother I learned to crochet at
a very young age. That hobby has stuck with me throughout my life and become a
very useful tool in my writing. While my fingers run through the yarn and the
hook whips my work-in-progress into shape, inside my brain a million synapses
are whipping together worlds that will soon be transferred to words on a page.
Many writers have things that inspire them to
write. Where does your inspiration come from?
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Bio
Keri Neal designs book covers. Flightless is her
fourth published book. She lives near Austin, Texas with her husband, two
children, two hamsters and a snake. She crochets, sews, reads, paints and loves
all things artsy & craftsy.
Blog / Cover Artist / Twitter / Facebook
Flightless
YA / PNR
With his soul on the line, Pen cannot protect Jade if his feelings keep getting in the way. But with Jade’s soul on the line, he must protect her from unearthly forces who want her blood. Will the truth redeem them, or tear them apart?
Other Books by Ms. Neal:
Hopeless - Coming Soon! (Flightless #2) kerineal.com/author/books/flightless
Thank you having me today Terri!
ReplyDeleteI only work on one manuscript at a time.
ReplyDeleteI play guitar, so that's my other creative outlet.
I, too, like to do things with my hands. I like being creative and I think it absolutely goes hand in hand with writing. I've built furniture, made jewelry, crochet, I won't go on, but you get the picture.
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