Since I've been a bad, bad blogger I thought I'd give you a glimpse of the ball gown Michaela's wearing to the Fairy Ball:
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| From Sears. If I could fit into this, I would so wear it to RT in April. |
Isn't it pretty? But that
color... how do you describe that color without the reader thinking "Joker on a rampage through the jewelry district"? Or "Barney in a rainstorm"? Yes, it's pale lavendar mesh over mint green (with sparkles!), but the reader is going to think "purple" and "green" and...
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| You get the idea. |
So I'll have to describe the effect the two colors have on one another just as much as the colors themselves. It's something I don't always get right, but I have beta readers who have no trouble asking me what the hell I was smoking when I came up with
that idea.
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| "And I thought vegetarian vampires were strange." |
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Irredescent...?
Yup, that's what I've been getting, lol. And it is how I describe the dress in the book. I just found it interesting how difficult it can sometimes be to translate what I see in my head (or online, in this case) onto paper. I just hope I do a good enough job that the reader gets a similar image in their minds.
I also hope I don't do a bad enough job that they see Joker Goes To Prom. xp
Or "The love child of Joker and Hulk goes to Prom"?
Seriously, 'pale lavender mesh iridescing over a sparkling mint satin' doesn't make me think Hulk or Joker. Doesn't quite hit that dress in my mind, but that's cause I'd imagine it greener. I'd describe the under-layer as blue, not green (even if it IS green, it LOOKS blue).
but... Yeah. I know where you're coming from. I only JUST realized where I got the inspiration for a certain look from, and now I've got to go back and do a bunch of edits on something to make sure it fits what I was thinking of.
what about trying sea foam green and then somehow describing the overlay?
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