Storyboarding, Will It Help?

The Storyboard as we know it today was developed by the Walt Disney Studio, back in the 1930's.  Webb Smith created the idea of pinning up scenes on sheets of paper to a bulletin board to tell a story in sequence. 

Storyboards are used in film, theatre, animation and special effects, presentations, comic books, business, interactive media, writing Novels and writing in general.

Storyboarding aids in brain storming. You can visualize changes to the content and helps keep the events of the story in chronological order, which intrigues and builds suspense and interest, allowing for visual thinking and planning.

Here Mary Carroll Moore, author and teacher explains how storyboarding works in the writing process.

This is just one of the simple writing strategies that will help you keep all your information organized as you write. I didn't use this method when I wrote my first novel but surely will be trying it for my second novel.


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