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\"Adaptation._film\"<\/a>Today we welcome writing teacher and script consultant Jackie Blain<\/a> as she shares with us her tips on adapting your novel into a screenplay. Would your novel make a great screenplay? Enjoy!<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Have you heard someone say that about your work? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Or maybe you\u2019ve been thinking the same thing. So why not give it a try?<\/strong><\/p>\n

After all, there have been so\u00a0 many great movies made from novels: To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i>, Silence of the Lambs<\/i>, and of course the Lord of the Rings<\/i> trilogy.<\/p>\n

I say go for it\u2026 but first, take a deep breath and step back a second.<\/p>\n

Prose and screenwriting are two very different genres and have different demands and joys and problems, not to mention formats.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I write (and teach) both, and it takes me a full day to switch my brain from one to the other. But it\u2019s do-able. Absolutely! You can hire a screenwriter, of course, but if you want to give it a try yourself, here are seven things to think about when you tackle an adaptation.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \n

    You\u2019ve only got 90-110 pages to tell the story.<\/b><\/h2>\n

    That doesn\u2019t seem so bad on the surface. But how long does it take to read a manuscript page? Three minutes? Ten? A screenplay rule-of-thumb is one page equals one minute of screen time, and it reads about like that as well. Which means adapting even a 100-page novella requires you to cut at least \u00bc of the original material. Yikes! Now what?<\/li>\n

  2. \n

    First, find the spine and hang everything else off that spine.<\/b><\/h2>\n

    What\u2019s the dramatic question that needs to be answered by the end? Will boy-meets-girl end up with them together? Will the aliens take over the earth? In a script, the journey to the answer is the spine. One question\u2014one answer. That means you may have to eliminate subplots, or scenes, or even characters\u2026 anything that doesn\u2019t further the plot (or the theme as it grows out of the plot). Fran Walsh, Phillipa Boyens and Peter Jackson got a lot of flak when they left the Tom Bombadil sequence out of their LOTR<\/i> script, but it wasn\u2019t necessary, and with so little screen time available, something had to go.<\/li>\n

  3. \n

    Decide whose story it really is and stay with him\/her.
    \n<\/b><\/h2>\n

    If it\u2019s Susie\u2019s story, then that\u2019s both your plot focus and your character focus. The hard part here is that you may have to eliminate other characters that you love, simply because they\u2019re not as important to the main character and\/or they don\u2019t move the story forward. Poor Tom Bombadil\u2026<\/li>\n

  4. \n

    Think \u201ccharacter function\u201d rather than \u201ccharacter\u201d when it comes to secondary characters.
    \n<\/b><\/h2>\n

    If your heroine has both a best friend and a sister who serve basically the same function, you can merge them into one plucky side-kick. You\u2019ll often have a more interesting character as a result.<\/li>\n

  5. \n

    A film story happens NOW.
    \n<\/b><\/h2>\n

    Whatever happened in the past (backstory) may help us understand the characters and the story world\u2019s history, but flashbacks and long expository conversations are dicey because they slow down the action. So you have to decide how much, and how, to reveal backstory.<\/li>\n

  6. \n

    Be prepared to revisit point of view.<\/b><\/h2>\n

    Suzanne Collins\u2019 Hunger Games<\/i> trilogy works so well because it\u2019s in first person, present tense. We\u2019re seeing and processing along with Katniss, and that\u2019s one of the great things about novels: being able to immerse ourselves in another person\u2019s reality. That\u2019s hard to do with a script. You can either put your main character in every scene as a way to imitate first-person, or you can create new scenes to give us story information that she doesn\u2019t have. The latter is what happened with the Hunger Games<\/i> movie; I leave it to you to decide if it worked.<\/li>\n

  7. \n

    We can\u2019t shoot emotions, feelings, or thoughts. We can only shoot actions.<\/b><\/h2>\n

    This is absolutely the hardest thing for a novelist to wrap her head around. There\u2019s an old screenwriting saying: if you can\u2019t shoot it, you can\u2019t write it in the script. That makes sense \u00a0\u2013 the audience isn\u2019t reading the script, they\u2019re only watching action on a screen. Read Out of Sight<\/i> (which is adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel) and you\u2019ll see how Scott Frank turned thoughts into visuals. Not easy!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Don\u2019t be afraid of adaptation.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    Deciding what stays and what goes calls for artistic courage. But you truly are creating a new<\/i> work, not just re-purposing an existing one. Give yourself permission to be ruthless, and you may just find yourself \u00a0once again getting lost in the joy of creation.<\/p>\n

    ***<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>Jackie Blain<\/a> is a WGA member, writing teacher and script consultant who lives in Portland OR with the rain and two cats, and blogs about teaching and screenwriting.<\/p>\n

    Website: jackieblain.com<\/a><\/p>\n

    LinkedIn: \u00a0Jackie Blain on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n

    Twitter: @jackieblain<\/a><\/p>\n

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