Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
3 Hour(s) 2 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Cheryl McKay
Rating
Course Overview
How Screenwriters Can Get Their Stories Into the World Without Waiting on Hollywood to Produce Their Screenplays
Are you a screenwriter who has wondered what it would be like to write your script as a novel? Are you tired of not seeing your work produced? Releasing your story as a novel is a great way to get it out there and see if you can find an audience. This could help Hollywood take notice. Novelizing your script is also a way to share your story with the world and not wait anymore. Especially in the age when self-publishing is available to all of us. I got tired of waiting for "Hollywood" to decide my stories were worth telling and started getting into the novelizations process after my film, The Ultimate Gift, was produced. I've done six of these now. One novelization on my own, and five with my writing partner, Rene Gutteridge, who has been a published novelist over thirty times. She's also a produced screenwriter. This class will walk you through what has to change from screenwriting to novel writing. Rene Gutteridge joins me for quite a few of the video lectures so you have an expert in screenwriting and an expert in novel writing teaching this class. Each section has PDF downloads. Together these include all segments of our published book Novelizations: How to Adapt Scripts Into Novels. You'll see real live samples from many of our published works so you can get a complete understanding for how a screenplay translates into the very different writing form of a novel.
PLEASE NOTE: Udemy estimates this class has 4.5 hours of lecture content. This includes both video lectures and written PDF documents. The run time on video content is approx. 100 minutes.
Course Content
- 11 section(s)
- 21 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Welcome & Introduction to Instructor
- Section 2 Overview of the Topic of Novelizations
- Section 3 Differences & Challenges (From Script to Novel)
- Section 4 Point of View & Setting
- Section 5 Structure & Plot
- Section 6 Interior Monologue & Backstory
- Section 7 Characters
- Section 8 Dialogue and Voices
- Section 9 Partnerships / Business of Novelizations
- Section 10 Bonus Content
- Section 11 That's a Wrap
What You’ll Learn
- Learn how to adapt your screenplays into novels, Understand the differences between screenplay writing vs. writing novel prose, Understand why a screenwriter may want to get into this business to bring awareness to their stories, while they wait for their scripts to be produced, Learn what special tools novelists have that screenwriters never use, and how you can take advantage of those when writing the novelization, Learn how a novelist / screenwriter partnership may be a good option vs. writing the novelization yourself
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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TT Joe
It’s a feed setup so far. I enjoyed the conversational approach to how they got started, as a set up.
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FFraser Martin
After a bit of a shaky start this course — not really a course but more of an eavesdrop into "how we did it" by two qualified people who actually did the doing — really starts to deliver. Very informative.
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AAnonymized User
This is a great companion to the book. I'll be referring to both when I start the novelization process.
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RRobert Jones
The BIG idea I got from this course was dropping my screenplay into a word document so I could use the dialogue in the novel a lot easier. I am now going to read the book and hit the first of my screenplays really hard. BTW, I like using Scrivener because of the automatic help you get, like a Research directory where you can keep all of the items you hunt down for your story. Thanks for this wonderful roadmap for S2N work.
