Sue Monk Kidd's #visionboard Became Her Book

Author Sue Monk Kidd of the bestselling novel The Secret Life of Bees explained how her vision board became her book. Click here for the story. She writes that after returning from Greece, she starts ”searching through magazines, catalogues, postcards, photos, and prints, cutting out whatever inspires me. I was supposed to be writing an outline for the novel, and I was cutting out pictures. It didn’t seem to matter whether I understood what the pictures meant or how they fit into the novel; it was enough to be drawn to them in some deep, evocative way. It was pretty much an unconscious process. I told myself I was being creative, turning my play instinct loose to roam around and find what fascinated it. Inside I was thinking: This is nuts.” Still, she allowed her work this process and it resulted in a New York Times best seller