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Max had a happy life on the family farm but wanted more. So he left for the city where he landed a job in a cubicle farm. He got the promotion. Jenny got upset because she wanted the job. That my friends, is how the story began.
Making absurd connections• A rabbit with a waistcoat and watch ?
• The mystery and excitement of the unknown (tunnel, a deep well)
• Great opening tension - how will Alice get back ?
• Pace and rhythm – A very long opening sentence with no time to take a breath.
CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole by Lewis Carol
• …. the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
• In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
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Activate your sensesHow can you get your reader to feel, smell and be in the page?
• Senses:
• Visual thinkers
• Auditory (music, sing)
• Tactile (touch, Dance, building stuff)
• Smell
• Many others like heart, intuition, balance
• If you are a writer, take a stab at drawing the scene. No matter how “poor” your art is, next describe it with words. You will be surprised with the new things that emerge from your mind.
• Some people record their stories and play it back. You will catch things that will not show up just by reading
• Some graphic artists build models of the scene. The tactile activity gives a new perspective and helps navigate the environment.
• Inspired by Churchill’s speech “We shall never surrender.”
• The art of war by Sun Tzu.
• The panel design shows a fast tempo.
• It has rhythm and emotion.
• From anger, to consideration and finally to resolve.
• If Max above was one of your characters, how would you describe his feelings across the panels?
• Can you get across the tempo and rhythm in your writing? Poets and musicians do this naturally with patterns of sounds, repetition and shape on the page.
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