Weekly Update — 3 (Patreon)

News!

On Sunday, we had our first Project B draft chapter. People seemed to enjoy that, so that’s good. Lots of useful feedback and corrections. 

As you no doubt know, on Wednesday we finally announced the Patreon campaign to the Gray Mailing List, and forty-eight hours later, we’d nearly doubled our campaign total. Wow.

And finally, last night I finished the storyboarding for chapter two of Project B, and am working through the story boarding for chapter three. We’re currently on schedule for the Chapter 2 release date on December 10th.

Updates over — Craft post begins. 

For those of you interested in the craft, I used a slightly different method for storyboarding this chapter. Up till now I’ve been using a ‘just describe what happens in the scene’ methodology. I had a slightly more complicated scene in this chapter though, so I fell back on a method I’d cobbled together before in my other projects… I wrote down chapter beats onto index cards and then arranged them into scenes first. 

In this method, the basic building block of storyboarding isn’t the scene, but rather the beat (I like to think of a beat as a scene within a scene). It’s an interesting method, which allows for an extra layer of mapping when dealing with particularly complicated scenes. Plus playing around with dozens of cards and laying them in front of you is just fun.

Just for reference, the scene in my ‘other project’ that I first used this method for with was the Alexandra vs Harry scene.

That’s all for this week. See you next week for more updates.

- J.M. Coombs (LeadVonE)