Eorthe is an alternate Earth where vampires, werewolves, and
other assorted creatures live. They’ve never even heard of a human until Dr.
Susan Barlow tumbled into their world. (Book One) In this new installment (book 2),
we’re traveling to the vampire colony of New Berg, where my hero and heroine
get in way too much trouble.
So you can imagine I had to do some world building. Every
author who writes paranormal/fantasy series knows what I mean when I say we all
have tricks to remember the small details of previous books. I can’t express
how much pain and time it used to take me to remember what so-and-so’s eye
color is or how did her bedroom look like?
*bangs head*
There were nights I wanted to hit delete on the whole
project because I was fed up with—wait, what was his eye color again?
I know writers who use Scrivener and Onenote. I tried them
but it felt like work. I work enough
at my evil day job and taking care of my kids. Until I discovered Pinterest and
fell down the time suck well.
At least, it was fun.
Then it dawned on me that most of my boards contained
pictures of things I wanted to use in future stories. Well, heck, why not past
stories too! I created my storyboards. Now, readers can go there and see how I
picture my heros, dragons, castles, caves…etc.
Better yet, when I need to remember so-and-so’s eye color
it’s just a click, and at least, ten new pins away.
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1 comment:
The first board I checked was Royo and his work is so incredible that it has overwhelmed me.
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