As many of you know, I'm in the process of developing an online video training program to teach business writing skills. Sadly, it's been a longer process than I hoped -- there's a lot of organizing that needs to be done. What scenes do I want to show? Are there some locations I could use (besides a training room) that would make the course more interesting? In what order should I present the learning? How much of it should be screen captures of a slide show? I've come up with hundreds of these types of questions!

A friend, seeing my accelerating distress had a recommendation: "Why don't you storyboard it? It'll help you get it out of your head and into a format -- AND you'll feel like filmmaker."

HAHAHA. I am not an artist. I am SO MUCH not an artist, I became a writer instead.

"Oh, no, you don't have to be an artist," he said. "Try StoryboardThat."

What a discovery! You really don't need to be an artist to use it; you just drag scenes, characters, text bubbles -- just about anything you could need -- into frames of a storyboard. Once they're dragged in there, you can adjust poses, colors, perspectives. And the choices of scenes and characters are limitless.

This picture shows you the categories of characters and a fraction of the Medieval characters that are available across the top (because the second frame of my storyboard was what I worked on last). In the first frame, you'll see my attempt at showing myself in a classroom. (I was lonely, so I moved my dog in, too.)

And funny enough? I DO feel like a filmmaker. I'm so excited to use this tool to get that online business writing program built.

Speaking of which: if you were wanting to learn business writing online, what are the two most important topics you would want to be sure were included in the program? Leave me a comment here and let me know.

By the way -- StoryboardThat lets you build two storyboards per week for free. They also offer paid subscriptions if your needs are greater than that. Happy filmmaking!