I don’t use pictures of people, my characters usually arrive in my head without that, but I’m wondering about doing a bit of story boarding of things and places for future books. I already do it in a small way, as I have a bag of odds and ends that are going to fit into a story sometime, but they tend to be written stuff, not visual. I like to create location tours for books, but those are usually done after the book is written, not before.
When I was in London last week, I took a few pictures of interesting things, including this one, of a garden area in a very up market block of apartments It looked even prettier lit up after dark. I made up my mind then that someone was going to live in one of those apartments, and soon came up with Romily, who is a actress with a very rich daddy, who could certainly afford to buy her one – maybe it was a birthday present. She’s not going to be appearing in a book for some time though, as she is heroine of book three of a romantic suspense trilogy.
Which gives me plenty of time to collect some more pictures to make a board.
Maybe I’ve started something here?