Screenwriting or Novels? Advice from Hollywood - video

Ill be reading your latest work as I am interesting in the same topics. I also write mystery using humor and comic relief. Keep me posted on your next project. JJ.Willson

This advice sits well with me, my sister is a screen writer and is adapting one of my short stories into a screen play. I always write with a lot of dialogue anyway but it seems my story was lost in the attempt to "make it more interesting" for the screen. So thanks Beth.

I don't know that I could, as the author of a novel, Rogue Element, go through the process of writing it as a screen play. My observation of this process is that the title is the most important part of the screenplay, whether the finished product sticks to the original concept is not essential, just as long as it fits the currently popular formula. A case in point, the Bourne Trilogy, the Bourne Identity at least followed the original in the beginning, but the subsequent film adaptations were far removed from the novels. Selling the rights without maintaining creative control, and watching a bastardised result would be so disheartening.

That is great advice. I have just published my first novel The Mystic of Karl Mind, and this definitely helps in development thoughts.

Thanks for the great to hear information, for adding I wanted to listen to such a resource for my learning to write for fiction namely novels because novels catch my attention for interest more than something like for example known to be namely dialogue, which are screenplays right? As comment also I think that the need to learn about fiction making and story creativity is a lot more profound to me for future than looking at what is known as the movie screenplay.