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Day 2: Legitimate Progress!

Posted on the 09 June 2012 by Avocado @90dayavocado

*WARNING: This post contains a rant about storyboards. :D
Well It's officially Day 2, and I am pleased to say that I am making progress!
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...It may have just been a few sketches and two index cards' worth of progress, but IT'S TOTAL AND COMPLETE LEGITIMATE PROGRESS! I'M WINNING THIS CHALLENGE!
Day 2: Legitimate Progress!
Day 2: Legitimate Progress!
Day 2: Legitimate Progress!
Okay, why did the claps become progressively less happy for me?  >:'(
*Ahem* Anyway, one thing that is helping me immensely is creating some very unorganized organized  storyboards to try to help make the writing process more fluid.
Why create a storyboard? Aren't they totally overrated?
Well, yes and no. I always brushed them over, thinking "that isn't the right planning method for me". But the other day, I noticed some framed posters in my closet that I wasn't using anymore. I turned them over and saw the beautiful cardboard backs, and thought, "Well, look at all this unused space. It's just begging for hundreds of index cards and post-its to cover it corner to corner.
So I thought, what the heck.
Here's what I started out with yesterday:


Day 2: Legitimate Progress!(Notice my '25 secrets' page from Day 1?)


And here's what I have today:
Day 2: Legitimate Progress!
Sure, it's not much, but hey, I've added 2 cards' worth of plot, an awesome sketch to the bottom left that really does say 1000 things in itself, and a card full of symbology. I'd say that's progress!
*Oh, and another thing. That 25 Secrets page from yesterday? I already changed something that I'd written! But that doesn't mean I failed at the list, or that I'm retreating from the story. Just advancing in the other direction! In fact, without having written the original thing, I wouldn't have realized that I wanted to change it to something that really helped make a difference. See, progress! :D
Well, that pretty much sums up Day 2...Remember, storyboards are your friends! Oh, did I mention that all of these wonderful and epic ideas came to me at 4 in the morning? Why must the brain do these things?!
See you tomorrow! :)"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."                                                                                            - Leonardo da Vinci
Book Working Title: Azhar, Prince of Red Fire

Day in Progress: 2
Words Achieved: 25 written, 0 typed
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