Searching for the images inside my head…

I’ve been inspired by other authors who have used Pinterest to create a mood board for their books, and have spent the last week trawling for images that might work for My Second Life. Once I started searching – thinking mainly about the various images in the book, particularly repetitive ones – I became slightly obsessed with the task. The cover of the book was a fantastic starting point – it guided me to all the deep, dark blue and black tones – and colour felt key as I searched. In fact so much so that as I scanned through images for oak tree roots and lines on horizons I knew pretty much instantly which images were a fit by colour alone; they so strongly conjured up mood and tone. And of course there were also the images I’d had in my head as I’d written. They were still there very clearly in my mind, just as they had been when I’d started to write the book and they too guided me through. So do go and look at the mood board. It’s been fun to gather the images together and see this board emerge as a visual representation of the story.