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Short Stories: October 21, 2015 Issue [#7279]

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 This week: Get Visual: Storyboards
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About This Newsletter

The purpose of this newsletter is to share my personal thoughts and ideas of what can make (or break) a short story. In doing so, I hope to inspire new, creative stories and to help short story writers improve their craft.

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Get Visual: Storyboards


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Letter from the editor

If anyone knows me, they know that I'm a very visual person. I focused on design, work in that industry, and just love the visual side of creativity in general. Recently I've been working on an animation that tells a story about a product. What I had to do was come up with the general idea for the story and then sketch it out, bring it to life. This was mostly because it's a visual medium that the animation will end as but the same kind of methodology can apply when you're writing a short story.

When you start a story, there's always that concept phase where you're coming up with what you want to write about and how you want the story to go. Now if you're like me, that's probably the most fun part of the process. But if you keep going beyond that, you may jump right into writing the story or you could be stuck on the words but you can picture it in your head. You know what's going to happen you just don't know how to write it out. So why not draw it instead?

You don't have to be great at drawing to do it. Take this example of a storyboard that I found from Stanford University on a tutorial for storyboarding:



You can do something simple and still get to know where your story is heading. This kind of planning can help to get the ideas out of your head and let you focus on ironing out some issues that may arise before you even start writing. As you can see with this example, you can even start writing a few of the main things while you're drawing out what happens in your story.

So I would encourage you as you're writing in the future, if you get stuck on how you want to write a story but you know what needs to happen, sketch it out. Create a storyboard to go from and it just might help you write that story even better. *Bigsmile*


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Ask & Answer

My question for you this time: Do you just jump right into writing your story or do you plan it out first? And how do you plan it?


Question from before in ("Short Stories Newsletter (July 8, 2015)" Open in new Window.): How do you make your characters more realistic?


Osirantinous Author Icon replied: Thanks for highlighting my story! As for realistic characters, I guess I add in things for them that I like or that annoy me or I have them react or feel like I might. I find realism comes a bit easier with first person POV too because I sort of am them so I kind of write 'me' and then change the name. *Bigsmile*


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