Screenwriting : Did you consider storyboard while writing? by Abidoye Ezekiel

I always leave storyboards to the future director when writing. As a writer, the job is to be the architect - design the plans for the story. Then the director is like the construction guy who builds off your plans. I find writing is often much worse when camera angles and moves get involved.

i see the movie in my head and then try to write the script in such a way that a reader (hopefully) sees the same thing ... or at least, has a feel for how the scene might look

I think that's a step ahead for me, but I do play the "head movie" as a I write or even just think about my story.

I’m a writer/director so i always think of frames, editing, sound — All of it while writing. i don’t know any other way.

I had to Google the word storyboard so that should answer your first question. While I appreciate the value of imaged synopsery, I came to movie and TV writing through storytelling. I see and imagine a story in my mind, not images. Since I am in the half-hour TV show genre, images play a much smaller role than story for me. I envision the lives of the characters as much as people I know in my life--not by how they look.

Sometimes I write a synopsis and I also have a series arc for my a show. But I just write the script and let the story tell itself. It comes off because I know people and have created characters just by writing scripts that I think what will my characters do, how will they behave from where I have left them in the last episode. The other consideration is to hit them with some unexpected or sensational event that will keep most people's interest to keep following. Also, the love these characters engender should keep people tuned into their lives as though they were their friends. Writing script is a manifold and varied endeavor. You have to know why you want to write and what you want to write first. Then you find the technique that works best for you, always being open to the input of others.

I do a kind of mental storyboard where I see scenes in my mind and try to write them out as best I can. So far I’m still holding to the advice I got to leave camera directions to the director.