THE ROUGH SCRIPT

With the first chapter of this story I did things a wee bit different. I started with the dialogue!

Since I wanted the entire story to be driven by the rhyming narration, I decided to work on that first, as you can see in the image with my longhand, chicken-scratch handwriting. All the while, while trying to stick with anapestic tetrameter (unstressed - unstressed - STRESSED x4), I was picturing exactly what would be in each panel.

I knew the overall tale I wanted to tell here, so I was able to focus on pacing each page and revolving the story around the rhyme-scheme.