STORYBOARDING & OTHER VISUAL WAYS TO PLOT YOUR STORY

 with David Weitzman

Thursday, July 26, 2018, 5:30 – 7:30 pm 

The Ukiah Public Library

Using visual strategies and approaches from his experience as an author/illustrator, award-winning author David Weitzman will help writers explore plotting and story structure from a visual perspective.  David will lead beginning to advanced writers on a visual journey from capturing first thoughts, creating quick rough drafts, storyboarding, and utilizing page turns to elicit surprise, discovery and adventure.

About David

David’s twenty books of historical narrative and fiction (Pharoah’s Boat, Rama and Sita, Old Ironsides, Jenny: The Airplane that Taught America to Fly) have received several awards including a Bronze Medal at the International Book Design Exhibition, Leipzig, Germany, a PEN Book Award for Children’s Nonfiction, an Association of Children’s Librarians Distinguished Book Award, and the Children’s Africana Book Award. Books can be seen at www.weitzmanbooks.com

The Ukiah Public Library and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators are delighted to offer a series of presentations on the art and craft of writing for young readers by Mendocino County authors. The series features Rena Rockford, David Weitzman, Natasha Yim, and Jody Gehrman. Each presentation in the series will be held on the last Thursday of the month from July through October from 5:30-7:30 in the Ukiah Public Library.