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.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

To be fair, they did fix Anna and Bates quite nicely in the end, but now they're killing people at extremely joyful moments in their lives for maximum angst and I am disgusted!

My friend finds keeping pictures of people that remind me of the characters creepy, so I was just wondering if it was me or not. I like having visual references, even if I don't use them.