Jacky Lang's Blog - Posts Tagged "visual"

I have this brilliant but temperamental friend who is also an independent filmmaker. He reminded me recently of his "saving the cat" rule for introducing characters. He told me that if you must bring in characters that are hard to understand that showing them doing something good/interesting early on will help readers connect with them. His example is having the harsh looking, tough guy feed or save a stray cat in the early scenes. I find it's helpful to not only talk to other authors and readers but people with a more visual take on stories (like filmmakers) when I'm stuck or stalled. How about you?