Sunday, September 09, 2018

Story boarding...literally

Story boarding, or mapping, is often used by writers and there is plenty of software that helps a writer construct boards, or cards, or whatever.  I'm fascinated by it; it uses different cognitive skills, outlining and summarizing and abstraction and visualization, to construct prose (and other) narratives.

Here are Gay Talese's story boards, literally, written on shirt cardboard, for his Frank Sinatra has Caught a Cold article, generally proclaimed as the start of New Journalism:



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