So, a lot of times writers have vision boards for their stories. We fill these with images that represent the theme or the thought or the character. I do this a lot by painting, but sometimes I make real boards somewhere (like Pinterest) too.
Like this would be one for my adult mystery, THE PLACES WE HIDE.
This works really well for the image system of your story and image systems are super cool. Let me know if you want me to blog about them.
And this is the one for one of the stories I’m working on right now. It’s basically a campground for the undead and other strange creatures. The working title is brilliantly called, CREEPY CAMPGROUND STORY. Yes! Yes! I know! Genius title.
And this one would be for the YA story I’m revising, which is a bit of a time travel story, but still awesome and not confusing.
And this one would be for IN THE WOODS, which I cowrote with Steve Wedel and came out this summer.
So, yeah. That’s a peek into the weird image part of my story writing process.
For more about a couple of the stories, check out behind the jump.
But before you go, let me explain. When I write my stories, I hear them inside my head first and then I see the images. Not all writers are like this. When I try to get to the heart and soul of my story and its characters, it is the images that pull me there. Not the words. So in my first draft, I hear the story, but when I revise, I feel the images.
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