Pinterest (It’s Writing Related, I Swear!)
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
It’s official . . . I’m addicted to Pinterest. See—this is why I didn’t want to try it in the first place, because the last thing I need is one more thing that gives me an excuse/means to procrastinate from writing.
So I’m trying to redeem the time I’m spending on it by using it for research purposes. This includes (click the thumbnail to view the full board):
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So now you can see first-hand how I do the bulk of my research on costume and setting—and in this case the historical event that ties the series together.
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Just checked out your Pinterest link — you have really gone to town with it, haven’t you!! 😉
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Care to give a brief explanation of what Pinterest is? I’ve seen the name a time or two but never looked into it. I don’t have a clue.
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The way it was explained to me is that it’s a virtual bulletin board on which you can “pin” websites (more like pin images that happen to be on websites). They have a button you can add to your favorites button-bar at the top of your web browser, so you don’t even have to have the Pinterest website open to do it.
It’s really more like a visual web “favorites” or “bookmark” site. If you looked at my boards, you saw that I’ve “pinned” gowns or settings I like—but each one also records the original website from which it came. So when I need to refer to the source to get more information about the garment or the historical object, I have the link right there to take me back to the source. In the past, I downloaded all these images—and was rarely able to find where they came from again. Then once I started using OneNote, I’d copy the pictures over into that—which would also paste the web address I pulled it from. But those files take up TONS of space on the computer—and I had to remember to transfer them from laptop to desktop or vice versa to make sure I had all of it in either place where I might be working.
This way, I’m not taking up memory on my computers and I can access the same info from either one (or any other computer with an internet connection).
I figured since I already have most of this stuff that I’ve pinned on those boards in OneNote, there was no harm in trying out Pinterest as a writing tool.
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Thanks for this site. It looks very interesting
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One could get lost in there! Interesting to know it exists.
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Your Pinterest boards are officially hazardous to my health! I may need to do that too for keeping clothing images. They do take up a lot of space, even clipped in my Evernote.
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