Nina Lane Oct 15, 2019 3 min read While Pinterest is the most popular online board site, one of the fun things about making a physical vision board is that it can allow you to be tactile — you get to flip through physical magazines and newspapers, use scissors, paper, glue tape, paint, markers, stickers, […]
Where do I write? Honestly, everywhere! I’ve never been able to force my words out, so no matter if I’m in my car, at a Starbucks, or my home, I’ve always got my phone or laptop nearby. I would love to be able to say I can sit down at my desk and work through […]
Nina Lane Writing in a Rainbow Visit Nina’s Website AVAILABLE NOW! Confession. Decorating scares me. I hate having to choose paint colors and window dressing styles and whatnot. I’m always worried I’ll make the wrong choice or nothing will go together, and then I’ll be stuck having to live with my poor decisions every […]
Visit Tori Fox’s Website Tori Fox Lost In My Words AVAILABLE NOW! Where don’t I write? I feel like that is most authors! I have a nice desk that I got years ago that I was supposed to use for writing but do I use it? Nope! I use it to edit, sometimes, but […]
Toni Anderson My Office Visit Toni’s Website AVAILABLE NOW! When we moved to Canada from Scotland fifteen years ago, my office was literally a corner cupboard that I could close the doors on. It meant I could hide the mess and also keep the fingers of small children off my work. Four years ago, […]
Elle Boon The Purple Pleasure Creator Visit Elle’s Website AVAILABLE NOW! I always wondered what “real authors” writing rooms looked like. Do they have huge desks with drawers filled with files that are labeled for each book, color coded accordingly? Do they open up their drawer with said file, lay it out and begin […]
Visit Jill’s Website Jill Ramsower My Oasis..and Chocolate AVAILABLE NOW! During my first two years publishing, I did a good amount of writing on the go, waiting for kids to finish school or activities. I would take a printout of the outline for my current chapter with me everywhere and write in the margins. […]
Katie Ashley Where’s Katie Writing? Visit Katie’s Website AVAILABLE NOW! In On Writing, Stephen King advocates the importance of writers having an office—one with a door where you shut out the world and immerse yourself in your characters. I’d like to say that by always having a room in my house allocated as an […]
A.M. Brooks The Fourth Bedroom Visit A.M.’s Website AVAILABLE NOW! When my husband and I bought our home five years ago, we knew we wanted four bedrooms. What we would use that fourth room for, we weren’t sure. It could be a spare room, a play room, or a kid’s room. Everything was up […]
When I decided to seriously pursue a writing career once it became clear that my career as a business accountant was over, I thought that I would become a bohemian, free spirit who would write in her PJs with her laptop precariously balanced on her lap. Alas, it was not to be. In my […]
Carly Phillips Where I Write & Why I Shouldn’t Visit Carly’s Website AVAILABLE NOW! Yes, you read that correctly. When I started my career, I wrote in a corner of the kitchen, a small space I carved out for myself at a tiny desk with a huge computer because…1993. Gulp! Then we moved and I […]
Visit Jas’s Website Jas T. Ward It’s Where I Be Me AVAILABLE MARCH 4th! From the very first moment I created my first book Word doc draft, I knew I wanted to be an author. I, like most, went into it with a heavy layer of optimism and naivety to the process. I just […]
As we’ve seen, authors use vision boards as a way to visually bring their characters and settings to life and to connect with their stories. Vision boards can also serve a strong purpose in life regardless of the creative pursuit, motivating you to identify and focus on your more important goals and cherished dreams. The […]
Nina Lane’s vision board for The Secret Thief Welcome to our four-part series on creativity and vision boards! Vision or “mood” boards are a longstanding popular practice among creative people, including photographers, stylists, and interior designers, but what exactly is a vision board, how does it work, and why should you think about giving one […]
