A Writing Guide for Screenwriters and Authors Are you an author who
wants to explore the business of adapting screenplays into novels?
Are you a screenwriter who'd like to see your unproduced script
written as a novel, to help get your film made? Are you a
screenwriter who wants to adapt your own script into a novel? This
book is for you. Novelizations used to pump business for existing
movies and TV shows, but now a fast-growing trend has publishers
contracting authors to pen novel adaptations based on scripts that
haven't been produced-yet. At least until the novel raises
awareness about the script and gives it a life of its own. It's a
win-win for all creative writers. If you are a novelist, you can
benefit from learning the craft of adapting scripts into books. You
may just end up penning a novelization that will one day be a film.
There is an art to this form of adaptation that may differ from
starting a novel from scratch. If you're a screenwriter who is
sitting on a gem of a script, what are you waiting for? We'll give
you tips on how to team up with a novelist. Or you, too, can learn
to adapt your screenplay as a novel. Just like screenwriting,
there's a craft to be honed. With the whole story and characters of
that script already in place, you're half way there. Want to learn
the trade secrets of this burgeoning business? Look no further.
Using specific, side-by-side examples that compare script pages to
novel pages, writing team Cheryl McKay (the screenwriter) and Rene
Gutteridge (the novelist) share their experiences, tips, and
know-how on adapting scripts into novels. Covering everything from
creative technique to collaborative contracts, Novelizations: How
to Adapt Scripts into Novels is an invaluable tool for both
screenwriters and novelists to successfully master this highly
specialized art form. * * * RENE GUTTERIDGE is the one of the go-to
authors for novelizations. She has written Old Fashioned, Heart of
the Country, and Just 18 Summers for Tyndale. CHERYL MCKAY,
screenwriter of The Ultimate Gift (which Gutteridge also
novelized), has worked with Gutteridge on the novelizations for her
scripts, Never the Bride for Random House and Greetings from the
Flipside for B&H Publishing. They won a Carol Award (ACFW) for
Best Women's Fiction for Never the Bride. * * * Key Topics:
Adapting scripts into books, what is a novelization?, challenges
novelists face, script changes, word count, book length, how to
paint in the setting, point of view, characters, story expansion,
how to structure & plot a novel based on a script, how to
handle backstory, interior monologue, characters and dialogue, and
forming writing partnerships.
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