Writers Tricks of the Trade Volume 5, Issue 6

PRESS “CONTROL” THEN CLICK “BUY” TO PURCHASE ANY BOOK ARE YOU USING PINTREST? MARKETING, REFERENCE, INSPIRATION A few years back Pintrest was the new kid on the block. But not anymore. It has become a wonderful tool for writers. Some of the charts and cartoons you will find in Writers Tricks of the Trade were discovered on Pintrest. So what can it do for you? For one thing, articles like this found on http://www.diyauthor.com contributed to that site by Kristen A. Kieffer. BUY There are so many good and valuable articles on the web, and we are constantly looking for those that will be of interest to and help our readers. When we fins something like this article, we always include attribution. 5 STRATEGIES TO USE PINTEREST TO BREAK WRITER’S BLOCK BUY 1. INSPIRATION BOARDS BUY Images of places, people, animals, locations, history, and films have inspired many writers’ work over the years. Often these images get delegated to inspiration folders on desktops, and time leaves them cluttered and eating away at their computer’s hard drive. Why settle for that? Create inspiration boards on Pinterest, as many as you’d like, and get to ‘pinning’ those images. In seconds, you can create boards to house the images that you find for your characters, settings, plot structures, and more! Not only can you pin what you find around the web, but you can browse any of the Pinterest categories to see what others are pinning to their own boards. And if you are feeling shy or secretive about any of your images, Pinterest allows you to create up to three private boards, perfect for keeping your latest story idea under wraps. NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2015 PAGE 18 WRITERS’ TRICKS OF THE TRADE

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