1. Writing/thumbnailing
I start with a story goal in mind, a short
written outline, and a loose series of plot points that I write out on a
plot diagram. Since I’m very much a visual thinker, the meat of my
writing process involves thumbnailing out small sequences of images. I
create scenes organically as I let the pictures lead my thought process
on where a scene is going. I fill many pages with scenes and snippets of
scenes. Then I go through them all and refine and combine these small
scenes into thumbnailed pages as the story fits together in sections.
This is a lengthy push and pull process, and I find this method helps me
stumble upon a lot of interesting scenes and sequences I may not have
thought of if I was writing words with the more logical side of my
brain. As I thumbnail I also jot down little bits of dialogue in the
margins, but sometimes the visuals will give me a good indication of the
story at this point without getting overly detailed about dialogue. In
the end, I eventually end up with a rough story pieced together from
these small thumbnailed pages. At this stage I do a lot of moving of
pages/scenes around, adding dialogue, and adjusting things until I’m
happy with the story.
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