Heart And Soul

I woke up this morning from a strange but funny dream: I was designing the cover for my book – not my NaNoWriMo School of Hard Rocks novel but one yet to come which, in my delightful dream, I had worked on every day for six months straight, wearing my favorite artist-y green silk floor length skirt that makes me feel so free and flowy and writer-y. This book cover (whose title I didn’t see, by the way), had a 60’s feel beige background and was covered in these bright tan shapes – okay, ready for the funny/strange part? While they were all representative of people in that they had arms and legs and facial features, they were hearts. Not the ‘I Love You’ Valentine kind of heart, but the heart body organ. I had drawn about twenty of them, placing them randomly on the cover but they were all slanted on the same angle as the Harlow Solid Italic font I used for my book’s title. Some of my characters, for lack of a better word at the moment, were men but mainly they were women – and the women were all wearing red pumps like the high heels worn by Minnie in the old Mickey Mouse cartoons. All the men were wearing red top hats. These tan heart bodies were heavily outlined in black and with the 60’s style flat tomato red really jumped off the cover. They all had a prop or one little something that was indicative of the period covering the 20’s through the 40’s; one female had a smoldering cigarette in a bejeweled holder that was probably twice as long as she was big, one gentleman wore spats while another had a monacle. These were just really cool looking hearts that made me smile when I realized their message:


Writers give their all, their very heart and soul, to their craft.
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"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary." -- Jessamyn West
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Hey Li’l Sis, it’s Day 10.
So glad you found the courage
To do this all again.
Love you!