Story Prompt #13
You have just finished writing another novel when one of your fictional characters approach you in a coffee shop and asks you why you put them through all of that stuff. After getting over the shock, you…
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Creating My Writing Life
What would you imagine a writer’s life to be like, someone that is endlessly toiling away at a keyboard, a typewriter for those older or hipster enough to imagine? Or with pencil and paper in handwriting and rewriting sections of a novel? For me, that is only a small part of what I envisioned when starting my journey but was only a fraction of the ideal that I was imagining.
Story Prompt #12
You spent years training and building your own personal memory palace. You know where everything is organized and places in your mind. One day while wandering around you come into a new section where you find memories and information that you don’t recognize. You start to suspect that there is someone squatting and storing their stuff in your mind.
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Story Prompt #11
You hear a ringing in your ear, in the past it has come and gone. This time is different, it is getting louder and more persistent. After consulting a doctor, they reassure you that everything is normal and that it is almost time for you to wake up…
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Story Prompt #10
While Renovating your new home, you uncover a secret ladder/stairs behind a false wall that lead deep below the ground. At the bottom is a thick metal door with large locking bolts securely locked. As you reach the door, it starts to unlock and as it opens light floods out and a disembodied voice starts welcoming you inside…
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Snowflake Scenery Sketches
In the last few posts related to the snowflake project, we created the character templates for the snowflakes and have worked out some rough storyboard ideas. In this section of the process we are going to work on several scenery sketches to set the stage and potentially the style of how this work will come together. I will be taking samples of several potential story locations that I have been working on and try to translate them into illustrated form. These will not be the final product by any means but will help act as a stepping stone on the journey to piecing together this concept.
Story Prompt #9
You were cursed as a child, this curse was the cruelest that could have been imagined, a life without hope. Anything you hoped for would slip through your grasp without fail, leading you to grow up not believing in luck or fate, but that success is achieved only through hard work and focus. One day you meet an overly cheerful individual that decides it is their new mission in life to change your perspective…
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Klimt’s The Kiss
It has been my experience that when you get the opportunity to view one of these masterpieces in person, you get a grander sense of how the art can affect each and every person that wanders through the gallery. For this particular piece, it is a very special reminder of a trip that my wife and I were lucky enough to take. We hadn’t intended to find this particular piece, it was just a mere happenstance that we found ourselves in the right place, the wonderful city of Vienna, Austria at the Belvedere Museum.
Story Prompt #8
Choose a famous piece of art, painting, sculpture or other medium that represents a snapshot in time. Using the aspects that are represented, create a story that integrates those events, scenes or characters that this snapshot was taken from.
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Creating Snowflake Project Storyboards
Starting with the basics, because well, I rarely have had to go through a full story boarding experience, which is part of the reason I am doing it now. Practice! Some quick reference points for what a story board is meant to accomplish.