Pun intended. I found it very helpful when doing my original outlining to save images to a Pinterest board. That way, I could reference them from anywhere. Some were helpful to me as a writer:

 

Others were specific to my story:

There are also the random pictures of actors, models and various celebrities, that probably made my family and friends confused. Those were to help with the characters. They are clear in my head, but if I go two months between describing one, I don’t want to have to go back and find exactly how I want them. Sometimes it’s also fun to look at the pretty people

This obsessive pinning to my Novel Inspiration board paid off today, when I needed it for a Book Trailer opportunity. I’ve also heard publishers want to know this when they get to the Book Cover phase. It is nice to direct people to a one stop web address rather than sending my barely coherent Characters document which contains spoilers for later plot points.

This is sounding like an add for Pinterest, which I hardly use, except for Novel Inspiration. You don’t have to use it, you can just use Google and save to a file on your PC. Either way, get those images saved, because it is much quicker than writing. A picture is worht a thousand words, as they say.