Desktop Wallpapers, Screensavers and Ficathon Prompts

[brightknightie]

Whenever I'm writing a ficathon story, I switch the desktop wallpapers and screensaver images on all my computers, both work and home, to relate to the new story. I like to imagine that this keeps some gear far back in my brain clicking on that task while I'm accomplishing other things.

For example, for last year's fkficfest/fkficfest, I used Google image search to stock up on images of Tuscany to nudge along that Renaissance Florence story for Batdina's prompt. For this spring's rarewomen, I found a recent screenshot of Claire Rankin and a teenager in some horror movie, and manipulated it into a rough representation of Fleur and her daughter to address FalconHorus's prompt. This summer, for this year's FKFicFest, it's Toronto.

What, if anything, do you like to do to contextualize your works-in-progress?

Comments

[pj1228]

Actually I don't do anything like that. I like the idea though. Currently I do have a desktop wallpaper of Geraint in this season's production of Antony and Cleopatra to drool over on my computer at work. That works well for inspiration. ;)

What I did though is instead of using *** to mark the end of a scene in my story, I switched to **** (4 stars) in acknowledgement of the 4th soccer world championship we achieved.:) That's totally off topic of course.