The commissioned bench
The Storyboard
Every film book begins with faces. Lay your manuscript down and the house reads the cast out of it — who stands in your book, how they look, what they carry, the light they stand in — and that reading costs you nothing. Then the furnace draws them: a full sheet of character plates in the house's own firelight, one book, one look, no strangers.
The sheet is 3% of your word count, paid in full. Nothing is kept — the manuscript is read in your window and held nowhere.
