WINTER IN ME
by Brandy Cross
There’s nothing soft about the leaves that fall
And winters chill it takes them all Brandy Cross
Another night all alone
I guess that’s why it’s broken
And I could almost feel
The softness of your skin
And wonder what it would be like
To hold you close and then.
The frost that sets in
As the day turns into night
Wake up in the morning
And nothing makes it right
Because it’s become a part of you
Nothing left that you can do
And I could almost feel
The softness of your skin
And wonder what it would be like
To hold you close and then
This house is not my home
It merely holds me in
And love it’s not that close to me
Too far away to ever be
Sit and watch the leaves
that fell a long time ago
Autumn rain has turned into the cold of winter snow
A little shiver at the sight of ice on the tree
I’ll cover up, and try to
hide, the winter in me
Welcome to Vision and Verse, Brandy. What have you written?
I actually write for a living as a copywriter, it's the best job
ever but I've written for way too many websites to count. So far I'm about
three quarters of the way through a sci-fi novel that I'm putting on hold for
NaNoWriMo and about to start a little Fantasy/Horror book that I promised my
sister I would write for her.
What is your favorite genre to write?
Definitely Sci-Fi.
Favorite food?
Tough… I'm going to go with strawberries.
Where would you like to visit?
Egypt, I've always been fascinated with it.
Favorite
musical artist? Do you listen to music when you write? What?
My
favorite artist is Guns n Roses (a bit old school I know) but yes I listen to
music when I write, and the what depends on the mood. I've got everything from
Wagner to Cradle of Filth, but mostly I do tend to stick right around the
classic rock area. Music is a great way to relax no matter what you're doing
really.
What makes you laugh?
Humor… what was I supposed to say? I'm pretty easy, I laugh at
almost everything, even when it's not funny.
How old were you when you started writing?
I wrote a crappy one page story about a unicorn when I was 7 (in
color pencil), my parents flipped out like it was the best thing ever and I've
been hooked ever since.
Where do you get your inspiration?
Actually it really depends. The alien book that i wrote and am
editing now I sort of got bits and pieces of that from a nightmare about being
attacked by a giant flying squid and the one I'm writing for November, my
sister asked me what was the most horrible awful psychological thing I could
come up with, and that was that. Inspiration comes in all shapes and sizes, I
once wrote a poem/song based on sitting in a swing watching leaves fall.
What do you do when you get a writer's block?
I drink tea (of course I do that anyway), write something else,
stare at the screen in abject despair, or do kickboxing. (my handwriting is too
awful to make long term writing in notebooks feasible, although my first two
novels were written that way and remain that way).
Who is your favorite author?
I'm a book junkie, there is no one best author. But I'll give it
a shot. Tanya Huff-Orson Scott Card-Jim Butcher-Mercedes Lackey-Stephen
King-Dean Koontz-Terry Goodkind….okay I should stop now.
Best book you ever read.
While I could not honestly say there has been 'one best book' but
I guess I could say that one of the first 'adult' books I read (I was 9) was
Madeleine L'engal's 'A Wrinkle in Time' and it was what made me want to write.
Who is the one person who has influenced your personal life the
most and why?
I would have to say myself. That may sound stuck up or
egotistical or something but I know there have been a lot of people who had a
huge impact on my life but I think that at the end of the day I made some
really major decisions and ended up going my own way. Sometimes it's the only
way to go to be happy.
If you could sit down and have a conversation with ONE person,
living or dead, real or fictional, who would it be and why?
That would probably be Tanya Huff, although there are I'm sure
there are more worthy persons out there, she just strikes me as someone who's
really decent, down to earth, and probably a blast to talk to.
What advice would you give someone who aspired to be a writer?
Press pages. Create a press page with your plot before you even
think about writing a book because it will help you in the middle of the book
when you've sailed past your inspiration and into the muddling realm of not
knowing what to write next. I guess I would have to say that there is no one
right way to write a book (say that out loud five times really fast) but that
you shouldn't be afraid to edit your book like your former 12th grade English
teacher is about to go over it in front of your entire High School class. There
can actually be a big gap between how good something is when you first write
it, and how it reads to you a month or two down the road. Also, remember to
have fun, it's just a book.
Thank you for being with us this morning, Brandy. Good luck in all your writing endeavors.
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