Scriptwriting

Now while you continue to practice your drawing skills you need to start writing a script. It doesn't matter if your story is two minutes long or two hours long. Writing a script will cement in the details of your story. Once you have a script in your hands it can be produced into animation or even a Hollywood blockbuster. Script writing is different from drawing. It uses a different part of the brain. But you have the story in your head and hopefully in your notes. This makes script writing easy. I've sat at the word processor before thinking I was going to write a great novel. You know what happened? Nothing. Why? Because I didn't grow the story first. Stephen King comes up with each story in his head before he sits at a typewriter. He likens the typing part to simply unloading a dump truck into a landfill. The content has to already be up there in your head before you can unload it onto paper. You can be a good scriptwriter though. If you want to learn this well then read "The Complete Book of Script writing" by J. Michael Straczynski. This is the guy who wrote Babylon 5. Read this book!