ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 asks you to take the first step in a three-step design process: write a first- or second-person narrative of people experiencing your design, turn it into a storyboard, and then interpret your storyboard into a final design. As a way to help you prepare to write a short story of people experiencing your design, you are introduced to three writers – fiction writer Colleen Mariah Rae, novelist and non-fiction writer Anne Lamott, and poet Ted Kooser. These are three practical, down-to-earth writers whose love of expression, of clarity of imagination, helps you prepare to write a landscape narrative, cum storyboard and final design. These writers’ thinking helps you realize you are not alone in believing writing is difficult. At the same time, they help you see the fun in writing through Rae’s “movies of the mind,” Lamott’s “shitty first drafts,” and Kooser’s practical call for us to “keep in mind that there is somebody on the other end of the communication.” Chapter 8 concludes with you having a narrative in hand ready to be reviewed by others and readied to be turned into a storyboard.
