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Today's Topic Using storyboarding 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
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The Worldbuilding Task for the Day
Create a storyboard for a scene you have written
The Real-world Task for the Day
Share it in the undercroft
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