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Saying Your Words with “Verve”
Mar 21, 2012
By the author, Jim Doti
The next four pages are critically important to the narrative structure of the book. Up to this point in the story, Jimmy has had a challenge thrown at him (being cast in the play), and he hasn’t figured out how to confront this challenge.
One way for him to do […]
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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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