Can't decide whether you have a novel you want to make into a movie or a movie you want to make into a novel?
Here at The Publishing Spot, you really can have it both ways!
Next week we will focus on the art of making a novel out of a movie script. I'm interviewing Christa Faust, a "novelization" expert who adapted Final Destination III and A Nightmare on Elm Street II into novels--supporting herself while she worked on her own novels.
Then today I found MediaBistro's great post about the art of turning your novel into a movie. Mystery novelist Rob Loughran tells the story of his long, strange attempt to write a script based on his own work.
Enjoy the essay:
"About halfway through the book the enormity of the task hit me: roughly three out of every four words would have to be removed, but all the humor and action spiced up. It was, almost literally, trying to make an apple pie out of oranges."
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