How to Survive the End of the World FRACTAL #3: Storyboarding, Structuring and Tending your Creative Garden
Dec 26, 2025
The sisters explore the art of storyboarding and its role in the writing process. They discuss the balance between structure and creative chaos, using visual mapping to organize ideas. Techniques like color-coded sections and physical index cards are highlighted for enhancing clarity. Their conversation also touches on how to prevent repetition in writing and the importance of nurturing multiple creative projects through separate journals. They even link these concepts to music and other artistic forms, making for an engaging exploration of creativity.
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Visual Map Reveals Structure
- Storyboarding turns a project's component parts into a visual map so you can see how everything connects.
- Autumn Brown uses physical visual elements to decide what's negotiable and how the reader's experience will unfold.
Arrange To Craft Reader Experience
- Use storyboarding to test different orders of ideas and choose the reader experience you want.
- Rearranging visual pieces helps you decide which order best guides the reader through your concepts.
Structure Emerges From Material
- Adrienne maree brown describes her process as emergent structuring where outlines form after material exists.
- She builds a skeletal structure then adds stories, detail, and polish as the project evolves.