Doug Lefler

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June 17, 2022

DEVELOPING ACTION SEQUENCES

For writers, directors, comic book artists, and storyboard artists By Doug Lefler Designing action sequences has been a significant aspect of my long career in the entertainment industry, approaching the challenge from different angles as a writer, director, and storyboard artist. I hope that the concepts I will delineate can be helpful to filmmakers, comic

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April 5, 2022

Sir Tiro

Sir Tiro sought to distinguish himself by slaying a dragon, but he had no idea where or when it would take him.

September 2, 2021

Courtship in the Forest of Extinction – Part 2

By Doug Lefler Bryn was gone for more than a week. “King Edryd wants me to perform for him?” the young man asked the emissary. They were standing to the side of the raised platform that served as a stage. The crowds were dispersing, but the clapping and shouting from the audience still reverberated in

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August 27, 2021

Courtship in the Forest of Extinction – Part 1

By Doug Lefler Bryn Oakkart was listening to the music of the stream at the center of Whispering Hollow when he saw her for the first time. Her eyes were so attentive and her smile so mysterious that he forgave her for not being human. At the age of sixteen, Bryn had fallen in love.

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June 27, 2021

Voyage Rhapsody 2

The Mysterious Passengers “Inform your Mistress that this will not stand.”             The surf was teasing the launch’s stern while three Krimsian Guards waited in the sand near the vessel’s bow. The sky and the beach were white, with sea birds attracted by the novelty of humans on their shores. “You have been paid in

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June 17, 2021

Voyage Rhapsody

1 “Overboard” “I probably deserve this,” Durn thought when the guards threw him from the forecastle of the Xebec. He felt a rush of warm evening air before the cruel ocean swallowed him. When he broke the surface of the water seconds later, Durn saw his former ship plowing relentlessly toward the horizon. The lanterns

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