Goal 1) Revise BM&A3
- My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
- Where I planned to be: Lesson 5, 32 scenes in
- Where I am: Lesson 5, 33 scenes in
- On Target or Behind: On Target
How’s It Going:
It occurred to me a while ago to deconstruct some of the episodes of cartoons I watch (I’m addicted to Adult Swim, sue me) to explore plotting and narrative density. Why a TV show and not a book? Because I’m literally already ripping a book apart, number one, and it’s exhausting. Two, I’ve seen these episodes several times and I’m familiar with them, but even if I wasn’t, I could easily refresh my memory in less than thirty minutes. And three, I enjoy them on their own, so poking them with a stick is also entertaining to me.
How am I doing this, then? First, I’m taking everything I’ve learned from Holly Lisle’s classes to separate the episode into scenes, represented by a single sentence of thirty words or less. Then I’ll map those sentences to Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat! method.
…I have no idea what I’m gonna do after that or what exactly I’ll accomplish by doing it, but I guess I’ll find out.
Meilo Zaborowski: Author 