Adapting Your Novel into a Screenplay: Take the Story from Book to Script OnDemand Webinar

ABOUT THE WEBINAR Adapting a novel into a film is a daunting task, even for an experienced screenwriter. This is because the main ways a novel communicates the story to a reader can't just be copied and pasted into a film script. Any writer adapting a novel needs to understand the strengths of each medium and how to write to those strengths. It's not enough to understand traditional approaches to screenwriting. To adapt a novel, the writer needs a very specific tool-kit. This webinar has been designed to provide that tool-kit. This live webinar will show writers how to find the script hidden in the pages of the novel. The learning process will start by exploring the strengths and weaknesses of each format. By understanding how a novel gives access to the inner life of their characters using very different techniques from film. From this start, we can start to see some of the challenges an adaptation presents. The next step is to learn how adaptation isn't just a simple copying of