nano_writers | FSN - Day 14 - Collage/Vision Board

Day 14 - 17 days until the start of NNWM

According to Wikipedia, a vision board is...

...a poster board on which people draw, paste or collage images that represent their desires, objectives, dreams and goals. The intent is that vision boards be reviewed regularly to maintain focus on the depicted goals.

Today’s exercise is a chance to get in touch with your "craftier" side and the part of your brain that works more with images and feelings than words and logical thought. Got glue?

We’re going to make a photomontage or eCollage if you like, by assembling images you might find in magazines, newspapers, etc. or online that represent to you, your story or characters or both.

You might apply a more literal approach to this project and find images that directly portray the characters or settings of your story but you could also walk a bit on the wild side and find images and symbols that speak to your story’s themes or mood or your character’s strengths and flaws.

Why not give it a try? There is no wrong way to do a collage! Find and arrange images in any way you find pleasing. Have fun! That’s it.

For additional information or inspiration, you might check out the following links:

Collage Art, a website dedicated to collage art and collage artists.

How to Make a Collage, a wikiHow tutorial.

Compfight, an image search engine - cool and fast!

I’ve done a small collage to illustrate my “Coffee and Coffins” premise from last Friday, arranging the images in a way I found appealing and evoked (for me anyway) a sense of the setting, characters and theme. Let’s see what you got!

Next week, we’ll look at how we can put together all that we’ve done so far to create a well told story. Until then Nano Writer, keep writing (and pasting)!