The Moodboard
Build the look of the book beside the writing of it.
Pin the images and colors your story looks like and keep them one panel away from the page. Build one board for the whole book, or a separate board for a scene that needs its own palette. It is part of the pleasure of the work, and it is right there while you draft rather than in another app.
- Reference images
- Color palettes
- Per-project boards
- Per-scene boards
- Pinned inspiration
- Kept with the manuscript
Reference, next to the page
Pin the photograph that looks like your setting.
Pin the coastline you have in mind, the face you keep picturing, the palette a chapter should feel like. Boards belong to the project, so they open with it and travel with it between your browser, your Mac, and your iPad. Keep one board for the whole book, or give a scene its own.
It stays with the book
The images that started the idea, attached to the project.
A board is part of the project rather than a folder beside it, so the reference you found in the first week is still there in the last. Colors you pin can carry through to the accent on the book itself, which means the atmosphere you built shows up in the app every time you open it.
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