Starting the Writing
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 […]
Storyboarding the Book
By the author, Jim Doti
After running the Surf City Marathon, I was relaxing in a lounge chair by our backyard pool. My wife, Lynne, stretched out in the chair beside me, seemed to be enjoying the book she was reading. While my tired legs soaked up the […]
Visualizing the Story
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 […]
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