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Where are the props?

Sorry, but we’ve all become slaves to our inner muses and are over at NaNoWriMo generating novels.  Just think of all the props we’ll be able to make!

A Mockingjay

Bright-Circle does a lovely depiction of Peeta’s pendant from the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire.

If You Let Me, I’ll Tell You a Story…

Lots of significant props here, not to mention the overall tone of the novel:
The Book Thief
If you were sitting in the cold, dark basement of your neighbor’s house, the air raid sirens like panicked birds of prey, what could you do? A book huddled close by, the last one in the world, its words reaching [...]

A Clever Aubrey-Maturin Craft

A Livejournal user called grace_poppy has painstakingly recreated physician Stephen Maturin’s dispensary from Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series in miniature.   The amount of detail in this thing is pretty staggering, right down to the intricate glass specimen and medicine bottles, each with a minuscule label.
I admit, when I first came across it, I had no idea [...]