A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
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When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.
When I'm writing, I'm creating the story and its character with words. I'm thinking about what the pictures will be like, but I never begin to sketch. The pictures are all in my head.
I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes.
The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.
Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.
Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.