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Starting the Writing
Feb 15, 2012
By the author, Jim Doti
Now that I’ve storyboarded
Jimmy the Elf
, I have a good sense of how to move the story along. But I don’t know yet all the twists and turns in the plot that I’ll need to come up with in […]
Visualizing the Story
Feb 01, 2012
By the author, Jim Doti
In constructing a narrative arc that includes a beginning, middle and end in a children’s picture book of 32 pages, as I did for A Christmas Adventure in Little Italy, I like to work with an outline. Such an outline basically involves storyboarding the book.
Before doing that, I spend […]
Continue Reading →A Narrative Arc with a Message
Jan 17, 2012
By the author, Jim Doti
A Christmas Adventure in Little Italy (CALI) told a simple story: boy loses dog then finds dog. No message other than the love between a boy, his dog and his grandmother and how that love forms the basis for warm family traditions and values.
What brings CALI to life is […]
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