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The process of adapting a
screenplay into a novel presents unique storytelling issues. Charlotte Cook and
Jon James Miller have been working for a year to adapt one of his award-winning
screenplays into a novel. The effort has produced a number of insights,
strategies, and techniques for making the transformation. Though aimed at
screenwriters, this facilitator pairing has plenty of advice for novelists who
want to create novels that could be optioned for the screen. This has become a
hot topic because the ‘spec market’ for screenplays has all but disappeared
with conventional wisdom in Hollywood that “screenwriters should find a market for their material as a novel first.”
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