Official Blog for the Animated Insights of Shannon Muir: Animation Writing and Production Pro and Author

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ANIMATED INSIGHTS BY SHANNON MUIR takes you inside Shannon’s latest reflections on her passion for animation as a medium, and other animated insights about life. To catch up on all posts, check out the Animated Insights portion of the website! This week, Shannon says goodbye to the column’s longstanding regular time slot and lets readers know where to find it next.

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ANIMATED INSIGHTS BY SHANNON MUIR takes you inside Shannon’s latest reflections on her passion for animation as a medium, and other animated insights about life. To catch up on all posts, check out the Animated Insights portion of the website! This week, Shannon discusses plans for a “video magazine” equivalent of ANIMATED INSIGHTS.

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Looking for new, short serial fiction delivered in small bites and readable at your pace? Site administrator Shannon Muir is experimenting with using Wattpad as a platform for short fiction instead of the blog. Here are her thoughts about creating new character, Doonah Cross.

“Doonah Cross is a new experiment for me, not just in terms of storytelling, but the type of character I wrote about. I’ve written younger characters, but they’ve often been young professionals. Doonah is more of an artistic type, and more of a character that lives in an urban arts district versus a small town community. After research, Wattpad seemed the best way to reach a large mobile readership that might find interest in these serialized stories.”

A regular schedule for the installments has not yet been established, but you can get a look at Wattpad and see what’s there now.

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