« more discussions

• 

  AUTHOR WHO MOVIE-STORYBOARDS HIS BOOKS FIRST!

  New Title

  

  Do you think visually? Check out an example of my 'book storyboarding' approach: http://theotheregyptblog-roylesterpond.blogspot.com

  roy lester pond started this discussion 2 years ago. ( reply | permalink )

• 

  Albert Smith 

  New Title

  

  It is an interesting idea, and if this method works for you, then you run with it, Roy.

  I work visually, but in my head, because I am much more of a movie guy than a book guy, and so this is how I wrote 'Smith' - if I couldn't see it in my head visually, then I never wrote it down.

  posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

• 

  Roger Lawrence 

  New Title

  

  I tried that. Then six months later I finally got round to writing and found that none of it got into the book as new things kept occurring to me.

  posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

• 

  roy lester pond (edited)

  New Title

  

  Further to thinking visually. I guess my odd, visually-driven approach to writing - movie-storyboarding my book ideas - came from my years as an advertising Creative Director (think Mad Men!).
  However, I do believe word and visual are going to come back together again in fiction with the emergence of Kindle, iPad etc.
  E-books should actually be an enhanced fiction experience, (hence Book Extras!) and not a poor relation of books, and so in my two new children's books "THE PRINCESS WHO LOST HER SCROLL OF THE DEAD" and "EGYPT BREAKOUT - Soldiers of an Endless Night" - I have inserted photos of real ancient Egyptian artefacts in the story, to educate and enthrall readers young and old. (See my Shelfari shelf - or http://amzn.to/ajVquc )
  Roy

  posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

• 

  Roger Lawrence 

  New Title

  

  Sounds like a plan, but I'd get arrested if inserted images that my characters might be thinking about. I remember the only thing I thought about at their age.
  I do like the idea though and I'll try to come up with some suitable graphics. Maybe some colour shots of the planets so that people don't just think it's a colourless void in space.

  posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

  show 2 replies

  • 

    roy lester pond (edited)

    New Title

    

    Hi Roger,
    Good for you. Why not try it? It's not just applicable to my Egypt fiction.
    When you think about it, earlier fiction, Medieval tales, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Rider Haggard's She etc were illuminated/illustrated.
    What happened to fiction? Maybe e-book fiction can return that missing pleasure and bring back the visual magic as well as factual Book Extras.
    This is a visual age, after all.
    Roy Lester Pond

    posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

  • 

    Roger Lawrence 

    New Title

    

    I was thinking, because I do on rare occasions, that since I am writing for digital media, then there's nothing to stop me from inserting moving images. Maybe I'll look into flash.

    posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

• 

  Elaine C 

  New Title

  

  Primitive man did his thinking in images. I often do so myself. We're just getting back to nature. Good answers come that way.

  posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

• 

  David Rountree 

  New Title

  

  I think it will depend on your subject matter. But for fiction it would be a great tool, no doubt.
  I write about science based paranormal research, and it doesn't help me there. I had to create a whole world though for my fantasy novel written back in 2000. Dark Lord. I spent more time creating the world and its history that I did writing the book.

  posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

  show 1 reply

  • 

    roy lester pond 

    New Title

    

    Yes, it is a useful tool for me - word and image are indivisible. It's interesting that the earliest tales were illuminated and illustrated. I believe we will see image and word reunited in this digital age. The cost of printing images in fiction probably drove a wedge between the two. With ebooks we are on the brink of an exciting new age for readers.
    Roy Lester Pond

    posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

• 

  Bill Talcott 

  New Title

  

  Sounds like this would be a great technique for writing a graphic novel. I imagine there would be advantages to seeing it all laid out like that when you go to write. Although I try to stick with my scribbled notes and that thing I eventually call an outline as closely as possible, I tend to make changes along the way that would just screw something like this up.

  posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

• 

  roy lester pond 

  New Title

  

  Thanks for your thoughts. I guess my approach is not for everybody. But it's certainly not cast in stone for me and I am free to switch around the elements as the story starts to dictate its own imperatives. One good thing is that my pre-storyboarding approach to fiction writing forces me to 'cast' my novels visually and that's a useful exercise, I find, in this cinematic and visual age. Also, my archaeological adventure thrillers are set in Egypt and the landscape, monuments and artefacts are almost characters in my books, so it helps to have sharp images of these in my thinking and planning and in writing.

  posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

• 

  Bill Talcott (edited)

  New Title

  

  I can see your point. Quite often I will take scenarios that I have either seen or taken part in and use the mental image to help me write my story. Video games help me with a lot of imagery.

  posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

• To reply to this discussion, please sign in.

Return to top