Rules of the Playground
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, page 42.
Story is King
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, page 31.
Keep it simple
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, pages 31-33.
Know your concept, theme or meaning
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, page 33.
Create Conflict
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, page 40-41.
Know your ending
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, page 42.
Entertain your audience
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, page 42.
Do something you like
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, page 45.
For every rule
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, page 45.
Create a memorial character
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, page 31.
Emotion drives action
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, page 36.
Show, don't tell
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, pages 37-39.
Example: Show, don't tell
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, pages 37.
Avoid cliché
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, pages 33-34.
Examples of clichés
Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer and Kate Alexander. Published by Focal Press, Elsevier Inc, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-240-80860-4, page 34.
Escalating desire
The Scene Book, A Primer for the Fiction Writer, by Sandra Scofield. Published by Penguin Books. 2007 ISBN 978-0-14-303826-9, page 70.