In Living Color

OK, I'm back today and my skin hasn't melted off or anything. No zombies wandering the halls craving human flesh. How boring!

Had another breakthrough on my current book. I was trying to decide if my heroine is apart from my hero just a bit too much in the middle of the book and if it was making the story sag. I worked out a clever way to solve it, and I'm all proud of myself. I love it when that happens.

I was also thinking about use of color in writing. I'm very visual and very into colors. I didn't realize this until I started writing in earnest and saw that my use of color comes out quite a bit in my stories. Reminds me of dreaming in color, just while conscious and putting it down on paper. I need to know what color people's eyes are, hair is, including flashes of color that make an image pop, etc. or I have trouble visualizing a scene.

In fact, I like to use hyphens, which I think is somewhat unconventional, when describing something. Like "bronze-gold hair". Used sparingly and from the point of view of a character that it works with, I think it provides nice imagery.