I have completed the first scene of the script which is the initial 'crime'. I am quite pleased with it. I got excited writing it as if I was reading the scene afresh. That's a feeling I LOVE when writing. Get excited about your story, as if you don't know what's about to happen yet you are the author. I felt this when writing Blanched. I get in a 'zone'.
So I am pretty pleased with the first scene which is 5 pages at the moment. Simon has said I should get at least 20 pages done for this project but I would love to get more done. It will require much focus though.
Annoyingly, my copy of final draft doesn't allow me to export as pdf so I can only send it to people who do have final draft.
It's quite interesting writing an adaptation. I have to make choices about what to keep. I want to be original too so am trying to inject as many of my own ideas as possible. However, it's difficult when the descriptions in the book are so good already to come up with my own so a lot of the time I am rewording and condensing the descriptions.
The same has to be done with the dialogue. Upon reading the opening scene for the third time, I have noticed that the dialogue is written like a badly written script. It's a novel so the plot can be explained in the desciptions yet the dialogue seems to be forcing plot on us in the 'Oh look it's raining', 'I feel sad', 'I wonder what would happen if I did this' kind of fashion.
So it's interesting and I am looking forward to writing the next scene over the weekend and trying to get 10 pages completed for next tues.
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