crackerjackjoe (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} crackerjackjoe) wrote,@ 2005-03-04 15:11:00 |
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Bizzare ways to Outline Stories
I saw the graphic novelists at the CVS meeting and was going to ask them how they storyboard (a movie or comic books version of an outline), but I don't think there was enough time to do any justice to the topic.
They did mention 22 panels that always work. They also mentioned that you don't need to be able to draw beautiful art to make a graphic story work. For example, RealLifeComics.com, he does 4 panel comics which it is obvious that he draws a character once and then uses cut and paste on the computer to reproduce it in the other 3 panels. (He is a pretty good artist, but that is beside the point) Then I thought, "Ah, ha,
that would make for a good writing workshop or exercise...
A way to visually outline a story!
Get the 22 panels, print out a bunch with lots of duplicates of each, cut them apart, then either by paperclipping taping, use them to illustrate a novel outline. Pick a frame, write a few dialog snippets and maybe a scene question, and repeat.
Bizzare way #2 is to use SQL, which is a topic for another day, since it probably is only of interest to the intersection of the set of people who are amateur novelists and database programmers.
I saw the graphic novelists at the CVS meeting and was going to ask them how they storyboard (a movie or comic books version of an outline), but I don't think there was enough time to do any justice to the topic.
They did mention 22 panels that always work. They also mentioned that you don't need to be able to draw beautiful art to make a graphic story work. For example, RealLifeComics.com, he does 4 panel comics which it is obvious that he draws a character once and then uses cut and paste on the computer to reproduce it in the other 3 panels. (He is a pretty good artist, but that is beside the point) Then I thought, "Ah, ha,
that would make for a good writing workshop or exercise...
A way to visually outline a story!
Get the 22 panels, print out a bunch with lots of duplicates of each, cut them apart, then either by paperclipping taping, use them to illustrate a novel outline. Pick a frame, write a few dialog snippets and maybe a scene question, and repeat.
Bizzare way #2 is to use SQL, which is a topic for another day, since it probably is only of interest to the intersection of the set of people who are amateur novelists and database programmers.
