Pinning for the fjords
I made a fatal mistake for my productivity -- I started a Pinterest account.
I had not done this for the longest time, for the simple reason that I don't need more social media, and I am not the world's most visually-inclined person. But I was having a hard time visualizing how to combine disparate elements of my costuming hint for Cirque du Fey (one of the larps I'm playing in at Intercon N), and it seemed like it would be the perfect tool for that.
So I opened an account and created a board for Cirque du Fey, and started pinning some things I thought were interesting/relevant. It was helpful--I think I know what I'm doing costume-wise now! So there's that.
At around the same time, I had been looking at some of the boards Leigh Bardugo keeps as inspiration for her books. (In fact, I took some images from her kefta inspiration board for my Cirque du Fey board). I thought, gee, that's really a clever idea -- not only does it provide a sort of motivation, but I can see how those translated into the incredibly rich imagery of her books.
So I created a board for Gods and Fathers, which I am still expanding. It has the basic inspiration images I use for Serevic and Mirasa, and it has some photos of Indian architecture that I think could inform the work, but there is more I could add.
Or not! I mean, G&F is basically finished; at this point I'm marking scenes as "final draft" as I go through them one last time in Scrivener. Occasionally I add stuff to make the world richer, though, so the board might have some use.
Today in my editing, for instance, I expanded a description of a statue of Anamur, using some stuff I had learned from a book called Exploring Hindu Imagery that VPeep Dave T loaned to me. In some sense I already knew that a representation of a Hindu deity has loads of symbolism, but this book really awakened me to how deep that goes--how to speak "the language of the gods." This is stuff I can include in G&F to add resonance without tying to any particular Hindu deity.
It's easy to take that too far, of course. I could be doing this forever, if I'm not careful ;)
More valuable would be a board for Lioness, since there's so much of that that's still being hammered out. Although I have more of a feel for a French-inspired setting, having lived there. Like with the Gods & Fathers board, there's a risk of it turning into "place I use to ogle hot celebrities." (There... may be a lot of David Bowie pics in the G&F board. I suspect that a Lioness board would have its share of Orlando Bloom).
Maybe someday I will figure out how to use this power for good, not evil procrastination.
I had not done this for the longest time, for the simple reason that I don't need more social media, and I am not the world's most visually-inclined person. But I was having a hard time visualizing how to combine disparate elements of my costuming hint for Cirque du Fey (one of the larps I'm playing in at Intercon N), and it seemed like it would be the perfect tool for that.
So I opened an account and created a board for Cirque du Fey, and started pinning some things I thought were interesting/relevant. It was helpful--I think I know what I'm doing costume-wise now! So there's that.
At around the same time, I had been looking at some of the boards Leigh Bardugo keeps as inspiration for her books. (In fact, I took some images from her kefta inspiration board for my Cirque du Fey board). I thought, gee, that's really a clever idea -- not only does it provide a sort of motivation, but I can see how those translated into the incredibly rich imagery of her books.
So I created a board for Gods and Fathers, which I am still expanding. It has the basic inspiration images I use for Serevic and Mirasa, and it has some photos of Indian architecture that I think could inform the work, but there is more I could add.
Or not! I mean, G&F is basically finished; at this point I'm marking scenes as "final draft" as I go through them one last time in Scrivener. Occasionally I add stuff to make the world richer, though, so the board might have some use.
Today in my editing, for instance, I expanded a description of a statue of Anamur, using some stuff I had learned from a book called Exploring Hindu Imagery that VPeep Dave T loaned to me. In some sense I already knew that a representation of a Hindu deity has loads of symbolism, but this book really awakened me to how deep that goes--how to speak "the language of the gods." This is stuff I can include in G&F to add resonance without tying to any particular Hindu deity.
It's easy to take that too far, of course. I could be doing this forever, if I'm not careful ;)
More valuable would be a board for Lioness, since there's so much of that that's still being hammered out. Although I have more of a feel for a French-inspired setting, having lived there. Like with the Gods & Fathers board, there's a risk of it turning into "place I use to ogle hot celebrities." (There... may be a lot of David Bowie pics in the G&F board. I suspect that a Lioness board would have its share of Orlando Bloom).
Maybe someday I will figure out how to use this power for good, not evil procrastination.