I really appreciated everything Jamie said. I think she is really open-minded and has great ideas. She helped me with my outline and was my developmental editor. My ideas were really scaled back, around 2000 words; what I wrote was very not defined or formed. She started with asking what I felt would be my weakness in writing and my strength if I recall. I really have only weaknesses and don’t really consider myself a writer but this is a means to create meaningful art and become a better visual storyteller. So I told her my weakness was dialogue because I have no clue how to write that and very little experience and confidence.
She gave me a few resources to build character sketches. I am on my 4th character sketch now and in between them I have been addressing the outline and changing it to make sense with the character sketches and letting my ideas come and inform the outline as the inspiration strikes. The character sketches are essential and will help me create dialogue but I am such a crap writer I still lack confidence with the dialogue which is still barely coming through as I rework and rework the plot but it’s coming along.
Working with Jamie was a huge step for me and super helpful. I really cannot say enough good things about her and would recommend her for anyone writing a fantasy story.