I scribbled a few notes today in an attempt to nail down what I want to do for a Yule fic exchange. I have the main idea for the where part of the story, but I need a convincing why. ;-)

There are a couple of artists I like who do fanart that sometimes helps in visualizing a scene so that I can describe it with words. What helps even more than fanart, however, is actual pictures of places and scenery of the type that I am talking about in my story. I find it much easier to describe a place or a setting when I have a picture to refer to which helps me recreate the visual in the story. Much of my research is spent searching for just the right scene that matches what I see in my minds eye.