The Desperate Need To Do It Right

Cap Kotz
2 min readApr 17, 2022

I recently accepted a storyboard and director position for a local short film project. There are two story branches: past life killing and OCD pattern release. I decided to place the past life murder influence in the background as a trigger for the surface world OCD struggle.

I removed the word disorder from the acronym OCD, resulting in a movement ranging from obsessive to compulsive. I visualize the movement range as a teeter-totter, with compulsive on the left symbolizing the past and obsessive on the right, symboling the future. This visual provides a grid from which…

Cap Kotz

Writer and Story Mapping Guide, I follow the life path no matter how challenging.