Love this! I also don't tend to think in a "linear" fashion, and it's so fascinating to see how other writers' creative brains sort and discover information (and book-length projects!). Thank you.
Emilly, this is wonderful. I think I found my way into spread writing by reading UNDERSTANDING COMICS . Scott McCloud talks about the "gutters" between poems and pages in a book and how a sense of movement or stasis is created by the turning of a page, the jumping over a gutter to find a new or old thing.
Love this and going to check out that book... the idea of jumping over a gutter is super interesting, the way white space invites us to move with an idea instead of just consuming it or reading it passively... thanks for sharing this!
Hmmm... I’m very interested to try out your method. While I do create notes using colors and things like drawing boxes around things to make things easier for me to see, my notes are not what I would call spreads.
There is a tool in filmmaking called lookbooks -- which is kind of like a big mood board to convey the tone and mood of the film.
Although important tools for marketing and production, writers can use them as they are actively creating and working through ideas. I’ve used Apple’s Pages in the past for this.
Kind of interested to see if I can marry the two ideas (spreads and lookbooks).
Ooo, thanks for this -- I think you're on to something with the marriage of spreads and lookbooks... your note also made me think of Esmé Weijun Wang's moodboards that she shares about on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/esmewwang)
Love this! I also don't tend to think in a "linear" fashion, and it's so fascinating to see how other writers' creative brains sort and discover information (and book-length projects!). Thank you.
Emilly, this is wonderful. I think I found my way into spread writing by reading UNDERSTANDING COMICS . Scott McCloud talks about the "gutters" between poems and pages in a book and how a sense of movement or stasis is created by the turning of a page, the jumping over a gutter to find a new or old thing.
Love this and going to check out that book... the idea of jumping over a gutter is super interesting, the way white space invites us to move with an idea instead of just consuming it or reading it passively... thanks for sharing this!
Hmmm... I’m very interested to try out your method. While I do create notes using colors and things like drawing boxes around things to make things easier for me to see, my notes are not what I would call spreads.
There is a tool in filmmaking called lookbooks -- which is kind of like a big mood board to convey the tone and mood of the film.
(https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/film-lookbook-examples/)
Although important tools for marketing and production, writers can use them as they are actively creating and working through ideas. I’ve used Apple’s Pages in the past for this.
Kind of interested to see if I can marry the two ideas (spreads and lookbooks).
Thanks for sharing your process! :)
Ooo, thanks for this -- I think you're on to something with the marriage of spreads and lookbooks... your note also made me think of Esmé Weijun Wang's moodboards that she shares about on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/esmewwang)