Writey Thoughts

[awanderingbard]

Does anyone else have an inspiration folder for their writing? I have a file of photos to help me picture people, places or objects I'm writing about. Like, I have a picture of Miranda's engagement ring, and some cuff links that were almost part of a Sherlock story, and stock photos of children who look like my mental images of Fay, Mal and Graylin, and some dresses that I don't think I even ended up describing, but are still how I picture them to look. Is this something weird, or do other people do this too?

In other completely random news: screw you, Downton Abbey and the British television that you rode in on!

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[bookblather.livejournal.com]

...am I going to be glad that I stopped watching Downton Abbey after they killed Bates/Anna in the first episode of second season? I think I am.

Anyway, I do! I have an actual physical folder of pictures I cut out of magazines that make me think of stories, or characters. I have a whole folder for Firestorm, and miscallaneous stories for all the rest. It's a great way of doing it.

[guardian-chaos.livejournal.com]

Oh, no no no, you are certainly not. I have not just one "inspiration" folder; I have probably dozens of sub-folders for whatever specific inspiration I'm after. It's more fun this way!

I'd be more surprised to find that anyone who writes doesn't have one of these. o_o

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I have bits and bobs scattered through a fair few of my graphics folders, though since I started writing Sherlock fic, I have actually graduated to having one folder called 'fanfic help' mostly because when I wrote my collab fic last year, we had a clothes/makeup inspiration post linked from the fic so people could see what we were visualising which, as that is how the fic started out, only seemed appropriate.

You know, I've never seen an episode of Downton...