We have been “writing” mostly by talking. Dave and William get together with a whiteboard and map out a scene, usually with AW=Alicewinks (Alice’s path) on one side and RW=Rabbitwinks (Rabbit’s path) on the other. We also show where they intersect, that is where both Alice and Harold are in the same scene. At right is an example. Then we start talking about the scene while recording the conversation. We come up with the dialog in this way. We may modify the diagram as we go along. At the end of the session we take a photo of the whiteboard as an aid in the transcription process.
At first, we would try to each take a different character, but it so often happened that each of us would come up with better lines for the other character than for our own. So we abandoned trying to be “in character” and just spouted lines, as in “The hatter would say ‘blah’ here.”
Laura was not in the same physical place as us (she was in California, later Kansas while we were in Colorado.) So Dave would transcribe the best parts of the dialog along with the scene descriptions. Laura would take Dave’s turgid prose (kind of like what you are reading right now) and turn it into something halfway readable. Then we would iterate on that.
At the end of this process we have a draft of a chapter. We will be uploading such drafts here for comment. At the same time, Brittney Laura and eventually Dave (when he returns from a sojourn to New Zealand) will be working the animations, perhaps revising the story as well. We will probably need some additional illustrations to work from, as we come up with characters and scenery not in the original Alice story. Anybody interested in helping out with illustrations?
When the dialog is finalized, William will record it, finding other voices as appropriate. And the final step will be syncing the voices with the animation.
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