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   Karen Mahoney on November 25, 2011 at 7:32 pm

   Kelly, you’re doing amazingly! I’ve been following your updates each day and am really impressed with your output & endurance.

   I hope you feel better soon (I am sick too. *woe*)

   Cheers,
   Kaz

   p.s. How do you find all your inspirational images? Do you have a folder of them that you keep updating? Do you search out each image just before writing a particular scene? Do you search for specific things, or do you browse art stuff and just save pics you like & keep them for later?
   (Enquiring minds want to know! Okay, I’m just super curious about a fellow writer’s process.)

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   1979semifinalist on November 26, 2011 at 4:02 pm

   Hey Karen
   Thanks for coming by again.
   Your output has been impressive as well on KazNoWriMo!

   I tend to be pretty inspired visually for stuff I want to do in my novels, and I’ve been told (this still remains to be proven out on a larger scale of course) that I write pretty visually, so I suspect those two things are not unrelated.

   I tend to pull images, as I go, depending on the scenes I’m writing. The inspirational images folder for this book built up very quickly in large part because I’m writing it so quickly. There’s usually a reasonable amount of images in the folder when I’m in the plotting and idea phase – I think this is when a lot of images most inspire me and when I do the most searching – before I sit down to actually begin. Then I just search as needed – if I’m having trouble with a scene, or need some new visual cues or guidelines, etc. But yes, it’s just searching for certain things and finding what I’m looking for (and usually a whole lot more) on the internet and then saving it to research folder for future reference.

   Thanks for asking – I love process questions.

   Kelly

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   Karen Mahoney on November 28, 2011 at 11:33 am

   Cool, thank you!

   I find it interesting, because although I do have folders of inspiring images, I don’t write each scene *to* an image and I don’t have many of them. I’m not a particularly visual thinker/writer, so I’m envious of people who are. I need to work on that if I’m ever going to write comics! 😉

   Kaz

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   1979semifinalist on November 28, 2011 at 11:54 am

   Of course!

   A lot of it is just practical…like I need to talk about the front of the MC’s house, and I need to have a better idea of how it looks, how many steps there would be, where the door is, etc. And some of it is more literally inspirational to driving a feeling or look or aspect of the book. It’s surprising to me how many times an image really does end up sending me in a slightly different direction. Usually a better one.

   Thinking visually definitely DOES help comics writing!

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