Notes and Sketches: Notes and Sketches, Part III

   This right here is a pretty good example of why I keep notes in the first place. As you can see, it's a whole bunch of reminders on writing tips, objects symbolic to specific characters, reminders to look things up, sketches of locations. In the upper right hand corner, I remind myself to have scenes accomplish specific objectives in the story, as the opening scenes in the old draft don't seem to do much. In the center at the top, an idea on how to imply how our hero is left handed, by having him push his pen across the paper rather than pull it. In the bottom left of the center (more like the top right of the bottom left), an idea to callback in a scene to an incident earlier in the story. There are also plenty of notes of detail to add to establish tone.