tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post6820922228196411647..comments2023-12-26T23:07:08.005-08:00Comments on TOMORROWVILLE: How Do You Do That Thing You Do? Roger Clues Us InDavid Isaakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928598446742324391noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-21495318376718886472007-02-21T14:30:00.000-08:002007-02-21T14:30:00.000-08:00Man, I have GOT to see this in the real world!Than...Man, I have GOT to see this in the real world!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for clarifying (though it sounds a little like the garage scene from "A Beautiful Mind".)<BR/><BR/>What works, works, right?David Isaakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04928598446742324391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-84838950127364458682007-02-21T13:42:00.000-08:002007-02-21T13:42:00.000-08:00Perhaps I should explain about the tracing paper. ...Perhaps I should explain about the tracing paper. I always start off on A3 paper - or a combination of A3 and index cards. Well, actually, A3, index cards and notebooks. Make that A3, index cards, notebooks and... <BR/><BR/>Well, anyhow, the A3 size has always been important to me in the planning stage, somehow. It allows me to jot down ideas, themes, characters, fragments and join them up - then scribble associated ideas in the gaps between the lines, or up the sides, or in little boxes I draw in the spaces formed by short lines, etc. I always try to use a really fine pen on a big sheet of paper, making my handwriting quite small. But the A3 size seems to be important (this is all sounding a bit OCD, is it not?). So one day, in the early stages of something or other, I went to the local office shop and the only A3 pad they had was tracing paper. All I knew was I had to have A3. I began to panic at the prospect that I couldn't get my A3. So it wasn't the A3 I was used to, but it was still A3. I took a risk and went with it. <BR/><BR/>When I got home I discovered that it was mighty fine gear. Mighty fine - opened up vistas of plotting I had never experienced before. Once you try A3 tracing, there's no going back.Roger Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08071467030127707462noreply@blogger.com