Lost Treasure

Still doing detailed layouts for the book. I’ve been working on a story for which I was sure that I’d done some rough layouts a long time ago that I really liked. But I could not find them at all, and resigned myself to having to do it again. There’s always that moment of hesitation where one is poised between just diving in and re-doing something, or spending more time searching… Which is the better strategy to save time? This time, I thought I’d do one last look, and started to dig around in my computer, hoping that maybe I’d had the sense to scan the sketches at some point – I vaguely recall having made a policy decision to scan developmental sketches whenever I could, for ease of organisation, and for incorporation into scrivener – perhaps I’d forgotten to label the scans for these properly… and lo and behold, I found them! A lot of time saved, and some nice layout ideas recovered, although perhaps it does not look like anything other than some really bad doodling to you. I thought I’d share it as an example of how a lot of pages start (actually, sometimes they begin even more rough than this). I’ll try to remember to show you a bit more of this page when it is cleaned up to reveal the bit of narrative that is contained within.

-cvj