Adapting Your Novel into an Award-Winning Script

AUTION! If you are a novelist who has never once considered that your novel deserves to be on the silver screen, put this book down and walk away and do not look back. You are one of the few, the wise, the lucky. If you are a novelist who is so convinced that your novel deserves to be on the silver screen that you have decided to write your own screen adaptation? Let me talk you out of it. "You will never be brutal enough to make the changes you'll have to make to turn your...
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AUTION! If you are a novelist who has never once considered that your novel deserves to be on the silver screen, put this book down and walk away and do not look back. You are one of the few, the wise, the lucky. If you are a novelist who is so convinced that your novel deserves to be on the silver screen that you have decided to write your own screen adaptation? Let me talk you out of it. "You will never be brutal enough to make the changes you'll have to make to turn your 500-page novel into a 120-page script." They told Pooks that, and they were wrong. What they didn't warn her was that Hollywood dreams are heroin to a writer, and you need to be sure you really want to be a screenwriter before you dabble in this recreational drug. Award-winning screenwriter and novelist Patricia Burroughs will give you the tools to understand what kind of changes are in store if you take on this dream, and advise you how to begin if you're foolish enough to do so!