Line graphs continued.....

Start with a largish piece of paper. I usually use a sheet of loose art paper 14 x 20 inches or so. There needs to be plenty of room to write notes to yourself. Turn the paper so a middle line drawn the through the length looks like a horizon line (this is called ‘landscape’ in your printer's lexicon). Now, take an indelible marker and draw a line from left to right – through the center of the page. Stop a couple of inches from either side to give yourself a bit of a margin.

On the far left-hand side, make a tick and write beneath it – PAGE 0. At the right-hand side of the page, make another tick and beneath it write – PAGE 90 (comedy) or 120 (drama).

Voilà, spread out before you now is the whole playing field for your story and your heroine/hero’s world – on a single page. Now all we have to do is fill it in.

You’re not feeling intimidated, are you? A little bit? IF you know where your story starts, over the PAGE 0 tick on the far left, put a note to yourself detailing that scene.

Maybe you’re starting your script with your hero just getting out of bed. Put that down. And IF you know how your story ends, go to the very end of your graph and make a note over the last tick on the page.

Before you know it – your road map for writing will be complete.

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