Learn to adapt your novel into a compelling screenplay with our expert course. Master storytelling, character building, and more to create Hollywood's next blockbuster.
This course guides you in turning your novel or someone else’s story into a killer screenplay! You’ll get hands-on with real examples, learning essential writing techniques to capture Hollywood’s attention. Perfect for newbies or seasoned pros looking to sharpen their skills!
Turn Your Novel Into Hollywood's Next Bestseller!
Do you have a novel or an idea for a novel that would make a great movie? Has someone asked you to adapt their novel or short story for television or the movies? This course shows you how to create and market a screenplay based upon a book. You'll discover how to take that prose and turn it into a script, using:
Story Structure
Character Building
Settings
Conflict
Suspense
Mystery
Dialogue
Screenplays have different requirements from novels. They are more visual, and your characters need to keep active and immersed in conflict. We'll use an actual project to give you real examples of the decisions we made in adapting a novel to a screenplay.
The accompanying e-textbook (free with Amazon Prime) contains the complete novel, plus the first and final drafts of the screenplay. You'll be able to follow along in the book and the screenplay, to see what we changed, and why we changed it.
You'll also learn:The Do's and Don'ts of screenplays
Screenplay formatting
To Develop a Pitch, Logline and Synopsis
How to Market Your Screenplay
Whether you're a first time screenwriter or are looking for techniques to polish your skills, this course will give you all the tools you need to adapt any novel into a potential Hollywood blockbuster. Enroll now!
Turn Your Novel Into a Screenplay
Structure Your Plot
Build Characters
Steve Alcorn is a theme park designer, author, teacher, and the founder of Writing Academy. His novels include mysteries, young adult stories, historic fiction and romance. His is also the author of How to Fix Your Novel. Steve has helped more than 30,000 aspiring writers structure their novels, through the online learning programs of 1500 colleges and universities worldwide. Many...
Dani is the author of the Young Adult novel The Last Telepath, and three screenplays: A Quintessence of Dust, a science fiction riff on what would happen if Hamlet met BladerunnerHow to Catch an Englishman, a romantic comedy about moving overseas in search of an eligible bachelorDo No Harm, a drama that explores the ethical choices facing a heart surgeon...
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getting a lot of great education
I was experting much more detail on formatting differences. A step by step guide would have been great, using a script we can see, rather than just talking about it. I was hoping to learn something new, as I already took the screenwriting class, however much of it was repeated.
great one.helpful and ahead
Excellent course. Concise. Clear. Informative. Intelligent.
I enjoyed the course and found it quite informative.
There is a lot of really good information covered in this class and the way the two teachers explain it makes a lot of sense. I like that they play off of each other.
Je suis satisfait
I joined the course hoping to receive some insight into the adaptation process. The course did serve the purpose. I feel that the course is quite limited in what it deals with. But that was clear from the description before I chose it. So no complaints.
Having worked in Hollywood at a Universal Studios for many years, I wish I'd had access to courses like this one. Very informative and the classes are easy to follow along and improve your writing.
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Vicky K. T.
I'm enjoying the dialogue and learning from it. Very interesting perspective on writing in a different venue than a book. Something to seriously consider that could augment telling a story in different platform.