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May. 18th, 2007 01:35 pmI have comic book page spreads on my mind.
The Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild met with some local artists and writers from the comic book industry on Wednesday, and something Liz said about page structure and narrative while I was looking at Jin's work made me yearn for even a small level of artistic ability.
What I have been thinking is that you could summarise the biggest plot arc of most novels in a double spread, with arrows showing internal links and size boxes reflecting the relative importance of narrative points. Russell Kirkpatrick (being Russell) would think of this as another form of mapping. For me, what it would do is give me a single (big) page that could sit in front of my computer while I was writing and so I could just look up and make sure I was keeping my deep and big stuff in order and that the end tied up neatly and that my manuscript didn't turn into another book entirely half way through.
Such a neat idea. So impossible to achieve. If you don't know why it's impossible to achieve, ask me to draw you a stick figure sometime.
The Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild met with some local artists and writers from the comic book industry on Wednesday, and something Liz said about page structure and narrative while I was looking at Jin's work made me yearn for even a small level of artistic ability.
What I have been thinking is that you could summarise the biggest plot arc of most novels in a double spread, with arrows showing internal links and size boxes reflecting the relative importance of narrative points. Russell Kirkpatrick (being Russell) would think of this as another form of mapping. For me, what it would do is give me a single (big) page that could sit in front of my computer while I was writing and so I could just look up and make sure I was keeping my deep and big stuff in order and that the end tied up neatly and that my manuscript didn't turn into another book entirely half way through.
Such a neat idea. So impossible to achieve. If you don't know why it's impossible to achieve, ask me to draw you a stick figure sometime.