Kelly Gibbons, artist and writer, about me

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

For months I have struggled to find what kind of writer I want to be, and then suddenly when I really dove into writing this novel I am working on it all became perfectly clear. I know there are some of you out there that are slapping your heads right now and saying, "I swear she said that a few weeks ago!" I know I said it, but I still didn't really get it until I began actually began writing this novel Once I dove in it all started to click together. The title came to me, the characters started to develop in my mind, I saw scenes and ways to expand the general plot, and I could picture the cover of the book and really see that this was something I could do.

I read somewhere (actually a couple of places) that when you are writing a book you should make it as real as possible. I have heard that you should do that with anything you want. Jim Carey, the actor, used to sit in his car above Hollywood and visualize himself as a famous actor getting paid 10 million dollars for acting in a movie. He even wrote himself a check for that amount and in the memo field wrote "for services rendered". He carried that check in his wallet and eventually he was paid that amount plus for services rendered. I hear about that kind of thing all the time on those biography and interview shows with stars. One that stands out is Kid Rock. He was asked if he ever imagined that he would ever be the rock star he is, as famous, rich, etc. (I think he grew up very poor in Detroit--sometimes sleeping in cars as he was trying to make it.) His reply, (and this might not be an exact quote) "Everyday! I imagined this everyday of my life." Greg Louganis visualized his dives and won gold medals. I remember the story of two college room mates, one was a golfer, the other hoping to be a broadcaster. They used to rehearse a scene where the golfer won a major tournament (I am not into golf but I think it was the one where you get the green jacket if you win) and the other one interviewed him. Years later, it played out exactly as they had rehearsed in their dorm room a hundred times, the emotions were unbelievable.

They say you can believe or visualize things into happening. The writer specific thing I read about was an author creating the cover of her book and posting it all over her work space for inspiration and to picture how the book would look completed. With that in mind, I design the cover of my first novel last night and I posted it in the sidebar here, and also by my computer. I plan on covering my writer's notebook with it. It will be a constant reminder that this can be real if I want it to be real.

Introducing a Novel by Kelly Gibbons:

posted by Kelly @ 8/25/2004 06:35:00 AM

1 Comments:

At August 25, 2004 10:30 AM, Hope said…

AWESOME idea, Kelly!! I may have to "steal" that one from you and create a pretend cover for my book, too. ;)