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Adapting a Book into a Screenplay

Hollywood loves adapting intellectual property for the screen. Learn how to turn a book into a movie to double your odds of success by writing in multiple mediums.

Screenwriter Interviews Pathos and Character: An Interview with ‘Palm Royale’ Creator and Showrunner Abe Sylvia Sadie Dean

Screenwriter Interviews ‘Eileen’s “Claustrophobic Misery”: Author Ottessa Moshfegh and Collaborators Talk Bringing Her Controlled Noir to the Screen Valerie Kalfrin

Writing Inspiration Tools & Techniques on How to Write or Adapt a Novel for Screenwriters The Writers Store

Screenwriter Interviews Not Your Typical Adaptation: A Conversation Between Past and Present with ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ Creator Liz Tigelaar Sadie Dean

Screenwriter Interviews Make It About One Thing: A Conversation with Adaptation Whisperer David Magee Sadie Dean

Screenplays Six Adaptation Steps Before You Adapt That Book Dave Trottier

Screenwriter Interviews The Soul of the Story: An Interview with ‘The Essex Serpent’ Writer and Executive Producer Anna Symon Sadie Dean

Script to Screen - Learn How to Make a Movie Building a Real Sense of Presence with ‘Conversations with Friends’ Director Lenny Abrahamson Sadie Dean

Screenwriter Interviews Trans/Non-Binary Survivor Lexie Bean Let’s Life Experience Serve as the Basis for their Book and Movie Projects Rich Monetti

Screenwriter Interviews ‘The Tiger Rising’: Children’s Author Kate DiCamillo and Filmmaker Ray Giarratana Discuss a Story’s Flexibility and Intention Valerie Kalfrin

Screenwriter Interviews How ‘Adventures of a Mathematician’ Writer-Director Thor Klein Found Story in the Details Sadie Dean

Screenwriter Interviews INTERVIEW: Die-Hard Mets Fan, Joe Benedetto, on Writing the Adaptation, AMAZIN’Jeanne Veillette Bowerman

Screenwriting Career INTERVIEW: Writer/Director John Lee Hancock on Adaptations, Breaking In, and “The Little Things”Randy Rudder

Screenplays INTERVIEW: Edward Norton, Writer/Director/Star of “Motherless Brooklyn”Andrew Bloomenthal

Screenwriting How-To Articles Screenwriter Peter Morgan Discusses the Frost/Nixon Showdown in San Clemente Ray Morton