Today's Topic Using story boarding to help visualize your stories

Podcast Show Flow

• Realization that many writers cannot visualize the story in their head from just outline
• Solution Storyboard it
  • Like is visual media, web design, marketing
• Focus you to see elements of scenes in a book, without looking for the perfect words
• The point, show the flow of scene
  • One Board per scene
  • Show the action of the scene
• What to not worry about
  • Your artwork
  • Camera transitions or actions (unless you are making visual media)
• Worry about
  • Important reactions, emotions
  • Sets
  • Movement (setup to resolution)
  • The number and position of characters
• When should you do it
  • After chapter outline
  • Before you write a chapter
• When you are done
  • Follow the board and seeing the story
• Recheck your storyboard before starting the next chapter

WBT

Create a story board for a scene you have written

RWT

Share it in the undercroft

Links

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/guide-to-literary-agents/jan-29

https://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource/

 

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