Designing Scenes

I thought I'd talk about designing scenes a little bit since I seem to be doing an awful lot of it lately. It's not something I do all the time, but it comes in particularly handy when I'm under a deadline and have to produce pages at a certain rate.

For me, scene design is a way of nailing down the structural support beams of a scene so that I can begin filling in around that. It's also a way for me to get a handle on what a scene is about, both internally and externally, so I don't have to w...