My book Dead Awakenings has begun to generate a small amount of buzz with a few people in the entertainment industry. Now before we all get too excited, it was just a few. And they want to see a script. Uh...yeah... Oh! And did I mention they want to see it in the next thirty days?
So here I am sitting with my book, trying desperately to get it ready for Christmas publication, and now I have to switch gears completely and write a script. But not just A script. I have to write a feature film version as well as a TV series version, with a 5 year synopsis and at least the first 3 episodes written as well. You know, nothing too major.
Anyway, so as I was sitting pondering these giant castles that I have to build. I realized that when you adapt a novel in to a movie, you basically have to play the surgeon. Nipping and tucking and cutting and stitching everything smaller an smaller to fit inside a beautiful 90-120 minute movie.
And when you write a TV series, you are a creator. There is so much more time. So you can take those smaller characters and write them their own stories. Make them bigger, play with their lives more. You can show more from the bad guys points of view. Give them back story and real lives. All those things that you leave out in a novel, you can now put in, in a TV series.
So I find myself being sad, that I will have to be a surgeon, but excited at the prospect of being a creator! And so now, I am off to work on outlining these two castles to try and bring them to life in the next 30 days!
Pray for me!
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