Chapter 3The brainstorm
Figure 3.1 Jacob Redmon–When a writer brainstorms all the potential visuals specific to any singular genre, he or she might be surprised what original ideas eventually come to mind.
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
–Anton Chekhov, letter to his brother (1886)
Visualization
Movies are motion pictures… moving photographs… full of visuals… action… physical things… food for our eyeballs projected onto a giant screen, dancing larger than life before us. Many writers get stuck in plotting story beats, forgetting to explore the rich imagery of the genre to give it the visual ...
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