{"id":19437,"date":"2013-03-16T06:30:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=19437"},"modified":"2013-03-10T21:22:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T08:22:11","slug":"22-rules-of-storytelling-by-emma-coates-a-former-pixar-storyboard-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/03\/16\/22-rules-of-storytelling-by-emma-coates-a-former-pixar-storyboard-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"22 Rules of Storytelling by Emma Coates (A Former Pixar Storyboard Artist)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specficnz.org\/\">SpecFicNZ<\/a>-er, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mark_A_English\">Mark English<\/a>, drew my attention to the following article:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/22-rules-of-storytelling-by-a-pixar-storyboard-artist\/\">22 Rules of Storytelling by a Pixar Storyboard Artist<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The 22 rules are attributed to Former Pixar storyboard artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/storyshots.tumblr.com\/\">Emma Coates<\/a>, and have apparently been collated from her tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I think they constitute a very interesting list, and the following particularly resonate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Trying for theme is important, but you won\u2019t see what the story is actually about til you\u2019re at the end of it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You\u2019ll feel like you\u2019re losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you\u2019ll never share it with anyone.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But do check the 22 out for yourself and choose your own favourites. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, fellow SpecFicNZ-er, Mark English, drew my attention to the following article: 22 Rules of Storytelling by a Pixar Storyboard Artist The 22 rules are attributed to Former Pixar storyboard artist, Emma Coates, and have apparently been collated from her tweets. Anyway, I think they constitute a very interesting list, and the following particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19437"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19443,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437\/revisions\/19443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}