Section 2Laying Out the Action!
Flying cars! The future is here!
You may have noticed that there is a concurrent narrative going through these chapters, one that’s meant to entertain, yes, but also to make a point: that staging and layout are just as important to the flow of the story as the characters within it, and that all these elements are crucial for a proper story to be told, no matter the visual medium.
Storytelling is not just the expression of a set of events occurring in a linear narrative. No, indeed! Storytelling is drama! Action! Danger! Humor! It is all these things and more!
Actually, a good story is only as good as the storyteller, ...
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