How to tell engaging stories for non-profits, charities, and causes Creatavist 25 Things You Should Know About Plot Previous iterations of the “25 Things” series: 25 Things Every Writer Should Know 25 Things You Should Know About Storytelling 25 Things You Should Know About Character And now… 1. A plot is the sequence of narrative events as witnessed by the audience. 2. Some folks will ask, incorrectly, “What’s the plot?” 3. A plot functions like a skeleton: it is both structural and supportive. 4. The biggest plot crime of them all is a plot that doesn’t make a lick of goddamn sense. 5. The simplest motherfucker of a plot is this: things get worse until they get better. 6. Fiction is driven by characters in conflict, or, put differently, the flame of fiction grows brighter through friction. 7. Of course, the essence of the essential conflict — the one below all that Wo/Man versus stuff — is a character’s wants versus a character’s fears. 8. A plot grows within the story you’re telling. 9. 10. Plot offers the promise of Chekov and his gun, of Hitchcock and his bomb under the table. 11. 12. 13. 13. 14.
Étude : quels sont les outils préférés des graphistes ? Subtraction a interrogé 4000 graphistes à travers 200 pays du monde, en partenariat avec Typeform. Objectif de l’étude Design Tools Survey : connaître leurs outils préférés. 6 catégories ont été identifiées au préalable : brainstorming, wireframing, interface design, prototyping, project management et version control & file management. Cette étude a permis de créer la boîte à outil ultime du graphiste, composée d’un crayon et de papier, de connaissances en HTML/CSS et des logiciels Sketch, Slack et Dropbox. Dans le détail, voici les résultats obtenus par Subtraction (catégorie par catégorie). Braistorming & Ideation Pour le brainstorming, les graphistes préfèrent utiliser un crayon et du papier. Wireframing Pour réaliser des maquettes, Balsamiq n’est pas l’outil le plus utilisé. Interface Design Pour concevoir les interfaces, Sketch est également l’outil préféré des graphistes (34%) ; devant Photoshop (29%) et le HTML/CSS (15%). Prototyping Project Management Version Control & File Management
Storyboard That: The World's Best FREE Online Storyboard Creator How 17 Equations Changed the World by Maria Popova What Descartes has to do with C. P. Snow and the second law of thermodynamics. When legendary theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was setting out to release A Brief History of Time, one of the most influential science books in modern history, his publishers admonished him that every equation included would halve the book’s sales. Stewart writes: The power of equations lies in the philosophically difficult correspondence between mathematics, a collective creation of human minds, and an external physical reality. From how the Pythagorean theorem, which linked geometry and algebra, laid the groundwork of the best current theories of space, time, and gravity to how the Navier-Stokes equation applies to modeling climate change, Stewart delivers a scientist’s gift in a storyteller’s package to reveal how these seemingly esoteric equations are really the foundation for nearly everything we know and use today. Greek stamp showing Pythagoras's theorem Snow later added:
Plotting Short Fiction Last month at MRA, I listened to Jacqueline Woodson speak about her writing process. It wasn’t the first time I heard her speak and I hope it won’t be my last. She is one of the writers I consider as my personal mentor. She said, “Plot happens.” One thing I’ve learned about writing fiction is the importance of allowing the characters’ to have free will. Kim Jones invited me into her fourth grade class to lead a fiction unit. Still, as a teacher of young fiction writers, it’s necessary to teach what works for me and what might work for other writers. Yesterday I introduced the story mountain to the fourth grade fiction writers. Then I gave them this planning sheet (click the link for a PDF). About half of the writers in the room used the planning sheet and found it helpful. A few notes: Enemy Pie by D. Like this: Like Loading...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 400,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use On Friday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that "more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use." Even better, the images can be used at no charge (and without getting permission from the museum). In making this announcement, the Met joined other world-class museums in putting put large troves of digital art online. The Met's online initiative is dubbed "Open Access for Scholarly Content," and, while surfing the Met's digital collections, you'll know if a particular work is free to download if it bears the "OASC" acronym. Happy rummaging. via Kottke Related Content: Download Hundreds of Free Art Catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum