Transform Your Book Into a screenplay

Screenwriting Basics: Adapting your Book into a Screenplay

Have you always wished your novel could be turned into a movie?

Join us in our upcoming screenwriting workshop on how to turn your book into a screenplay! In this class Michael Elliot will address how to write your logline, story theme, outline, first draft, rewriting and other parts of the writing process:

We will begin with:

• Why Hollywood loves adapting novels into movies.
• Why movie adaptations of popular books are so often disappointing.
• The major differences between novels and screenplays.
• How to condense a 300-page novel into a 100-page screenplay.

Then we will move into understanding of screenplay formatting basics such as:

• Scene Headings (slug lines)
• Narrative Description
• Incorporating dialogue

And finally, we will end with:

• Developing and hopefully selling your screenplay
• Paid professional coverage
• How to submit to screenwriting contests
• How to pitch your screenplay – to whom and where to start