Mess! (and cat)

This is my mess (cat optional). 

It’s all the notes and bits I’ve accumulated over the years. If you look carefully you will be able to see:

- 3 notebooks (including one in French)

- some doodles - actually, no, the cat is lying on those

- the feedback report from the book doctor (sad face)

- postcards I’ve collected for inspiration

- pictures I’ve taken on a trip to the Broceliande forest (more about this later!)

- and lots of loose pages, because it would seem I write on random notebooks or bits of paper that are not my actual writing notebooks, and then I end up with, well, this.

However it’s only the tip of the iceberg, because being modern and all, I now have a writing software, scrivener, where I store all my background information. My book, on the other hand, is in Word, for technical reasons that aren’t really interesting and a bit stupid on my part.

On the screenshot from my Scrivener sidebar you might notice that I have procrastinated taken the time to add little icons for each subheading. Aren't they pretty! You might also see the background information on my world include: politics, economy, education (obvs!) and clothes. In fact the last one is perhaps the most extensive. If you are interested, I have a pinterest account with a lot of pictures I have wasted time finding painstakingly collected.

World building is one of my favourite parts of writing fantasy (the other one being, you know, the actual writing), so I might be temped to post more about that later on. Let me know if that would be of interest.