I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
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I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.
When I know I'm going to work on a cover, I practically run to the computer! After working with words for so long, it's lovely to do something that's creative yet also the professional equivalent of scribbling in your own coloring book.
I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.