Using images when writing
No matter what I’m writing; novels, stories, articles or essays, I like to find images of what I’m writing about. It brings the scene to life in my head, allowing me to focus on the whole picture or a minute detail. Here are some of the images I’ve been using (and some of the text they inspired) as I’ve been writing the third book in the series - Conspiracy.
With their grey hair receding and cut short, they looked like every 1970s New Zealand board of directors, a homogenous a group of human peas in a pod.
‘Whether it’s here, lying in a pool of your own blood or at work, stuffed into one of the vehicle inspection pits for your work mates to find. The SIS agent tailing you isn’t there to protect you, think of yourself as live bait.’
Indy, a small version of an American bulldog she had rescued from the Nelson SPCA, ambled over to take a serious look. She looked up at Alice wearing her permanently puzzled expression.
From Surveillance - But as he rounded the final corner, he slowed. There was something wrong with the picture, something out of place. As he carried on cautiously, he saw through the window of the bus shelter . . .
