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The Play is Cast
Feb 29, 2012
By the author, Jim Doti
Everything in the narrative thus far has been preparatory to the main plot. We know, for example, that Jimmy has a speech defect and that children laugh and ridicule him for it. We also know a bit about his mom, his dog, Blackie, his teacher and a few of his […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →Storyboarding the Book
Feb 10, 2012
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
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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