Posts Tagged ‘screnzy’
I’ve made my Screnzy decision!
I’m adapting a novel called “Sabriel,” by Garth Nix. The point was brought up on the Screnzy forums that you can’t do anything with an adapted novel, but it’ll be fun either way. I can just finish it and put it away, because I don’t know the first thing about shopping a screenplay adapted from a novel.
The plotting side of my brain is exhausted from NaNoWriMo, seriously. I don’t think that side of my brain could come up with something viable for a screenplay, with characters, a plot, an arc…I can’t even finish my novel without a struggle.
Anyway. Tonight I’m really going to sit down and finish out this chapter. I sketched it out in my notebook, because I really felt like the part I’m at needed to be written out longhand. That and the blinking cursor was just really intimidating.
I have to get a lot done during the nights leading up to Friday, because Friday and Saturday are pretty packed with Cage the Elephant in Buffalo with P (where I will not be a chicken shit, no!), and a baby shower to set up and attend on Saturday.
Maybe Sunday will be a good day for writing. I think it’s supposed to be sunny, so going out on the porch wouldn’t be totally out of the question.
TV? Film? TV? Film?
1000 words a day! 1000 words a day! I’m at 66K right now. I’ve missed Monday and Tuesday, so I have to find time to either write 3000 words tonight, or 4000 tomorrow night. Or, I can split the difference. 2000 tonight, 2000 tomorrow.
My plan is to finish by the end of March because when April comes around, Script Frenzy starts, and I can take the month off from my novel, but work on a script for Screnzy in that month off.
Speaking of Screnzy, which will be a recurring topic in the coming weeks, my mind is completely blank when it comes to what I want to write about. I thought about basing a short on my office, because there is more than enough to write about there. I could even write a screenplay based on my novel, but it’s far too early in the process to even consider that possibility.
Then I have to decide if I want to write for television or film. I’ve always liked how writers in TV can fit in three or four story lines into 22 or 42 minutes (more if you’re HBO or Showtime or some other cable channel), and I enjoy fast-paced dialogue (see: The West Wing) and intelligent humor. I want to see if I can accomplish any of that. With film, you’re more free to do what you want, without the time constraints. I’m not saying I would write an epically long movie, sometimes it’s justified, but I’m saying that it has its advantages.
Then I thought about adapting a novel to screenplay. My dad and I had a talk about adapting something from Raymond Chandler, but he’s not really my cup of tea. I have to go through my bookshelf and see what I can come up with. While I do that, why don’t you tell me what novels you would like to see adapted?
