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The Story within the Story
Feb 22, 2012
By the author, Jim Doti
The reader now knows that Jimmy is afraid of school. In the next two pages (pages 5-6), I need to give a vivid example of why Jimmy is so fearful of school. I’ll do that by introducing a classmate that ridicules him. I also need to set the stage for […]
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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 […]
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