With my novel, I am wanting to capture the mood of in-novel entity details such as for example a particular setting. A given location/setting starts in my head

With my novel, I am wanting to capture the mood of in-novel entity details such as for example a particular setting. A given location/setting starts in my head as something as simple as: the protagonist's home village the quirky support characters castle the villain's lair Readers love specificity, so while you are able to understand the aim of a setting in only the above few words, there is no atmosphere to help someone imagine the details of a particular setting. But with a mood board, I can save several images that have aspects of an entity (such as a setting, character design, creature design, item, or article of clothing) in my novel worth talking about. These images are either mentally marked up or actually marked up using a graphics tablet to show which aspect I want from that image. That "completes" a particular mood board. Later, when I'm writing the manuscript copy, I can look at the mood board and use it as a mental checklist to make certain that I have used all of the various creative aspects that I intended to for a given entity. If it turns out that my descriptions have been rounded out completely in this particular unit of copy and I need to get on to the scene or sequel content, then the unused mood board details will sit there as inspiration in the future.