When I harvested this year’s blueberries from the back garden I noticed I’d picked an unripened berry or two. As I was taking a few photos for my blog, one of the unripened berries began to move. I’d accidentally picked this little guy by mistake. When asked, he said he’d be happy to pose for pictures, So, after I finished his photoshoot, I carefully returned him to a shady patch in the garden with a few juicy berries as his payment.
Late last year, as I started to write the last book in the Ravenwood Trilogy, I wanted to refresh my memory of how Lizzie’s journey began; to get a better picture of her character arc and where it needed to end up.
Being a curiologist meant just re-reading book one wouldn’t do. I had to come up with a creative and challenging way to review the storyline of The Enchanted One. Thus, The Unbound Book Project was born.
My challenge was to create a mood board for each chapter encompassing not just the mood but a key phrase or pivotal moment in Lizzie’s journey. I also set parameters on the props I could use: they had to come from what I already had in the house or out in the garden. I had a great deal of fun with this project and it was fascinating to see a definite colour scheme emerge and how it shifted slightly as the mood of the book did.
Although it ended up being a great deal more work than I anticipated, I also had a great deal more fun in the process. And I have to admit I felt a little sad when I uploaded the last image a few weeks ago. So, to all of you that followed my posts for this project, I thank you and I hope you enjoyed the rather odd way I see the world and how my writing process very often involves other forms of art when I work on a book.
Lora Deeprose 