I read this book called “Tempo” by Venkatesh Rao, where he talks about how important our perception of the tempo of life is to us and how we either fight it or go with it. To briefly and extremely overly simplify this book – people love tempo, they want to be in control of this […]
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I really like post-it notes, so much so that I’m writing a post about it so maybe you’ll appreciate them as much as I do. A “problem” I have is that I spend all day at my job working at a computer, then in the evening I come home and I work on a computer. […]
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Story Structure – End
I really like Post-it notes! So much so I’ll write a whole post about them at some point, but in relation to the story structure the 8 point story circle works so perfectly on post-it’s, so as I’ve been planning episodes using the story circle with my 8 post-its What I realise after doing this […]
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Story Structure – Middle
A few years ago, when this project was only a few random notes I’d been collecting on my phone, I read Joseph Campbell’s – a hero of a thousand faces, as soon as I was finished I started again. This book was like a light bulb for me, I just didn’t know what the light […]
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Story Structure – Begining
I love stories, I always have and I think at our most basic level we all do, we don’t just like story’s we need stories, they keep our egos alive, they give life meaning, we tell stories all day. but writing, writing is a different story. Once there was a protagonist with a goal and […]
Wow, time just disappears, but it’s okay, I’ve not gone anywhere! The plan, the plan, oh the plan. Where to start, the plan like all good plans has changed many times over since the beginning so instead of setting out doomed to fail timelines. I’m gonna keep this plan loose, more focused on the plan […]
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It has begun
Welcome to the smallGigantic blog, where I will document the process of making my very own animated cartoon. I’ve been working on it this project for a fair few months at this point, The COVID lockdown gave me a lot of extra time, so finally after years of thinking about it, I finally started! So […]