The Under-Structure and Grammar of Visual and Literary Narration and Storytelling.

To write a animation script, comic book script, short stories, and novels...You need to write outlines that organize the action and events, as a way of mapping everything out on paper, not just your mind.

To draw comics, and animation pre-production you need to produce a sequence of thumbnail and storyboard, or thumbnail-storyboard panels and camera shots, draw in boxes no bigger than a postage stamp or sticky note [to start off with].

This is how comics and scripts and novels and fiction get made...

I've recently adapted both these working models and they've literally transformed my productivity and process. Suddenly drawing comics and writing fiction is fun  again when I try these methodology techniques. 

-J.M.