A Little Reality For the Fiction

Today I picked up a nameplate I had made for the character in my novel.  It looks very professional, and it was cheap to make.  I wanted to have something I could see, and direct make my story more real for me.  I won't give away too much, but its a tangible bridge I can look and direct, focus, and create emotions with.  A lot of this traits stem from people I've had the misfortune of knowing, or of my own conventions about what this villain should be.  Much like hearing a song, or smelling a smell, will remind of us something, I think this thing I can see, and touch, will spark the right frequencies of emotions and ideas that I can use for my writing.  So I guess we'll see how it goes.