This book I just might have to pick up

way to go John, I too wish to write a book one day, thank G*d for spell checking my speling is terribnle. :)

Anhar
 
Congrats on starting the novel.:beer:

Once you start, don't stop until it's done. I'm 682 pages into a novel that I sat down a couple of years ago to work on a screenplay. I figure I have about 100 pages to go which would be about 20 days. The problem now is that I have to go back and read the whole thing to remember what happened so far and who's who. DON'T STOP UNTIL YOU'RE FINISHED! :thumbsup:
 
I used to write exclusively before taking up film. I love the process, but for me, I can communicate much better through pictures than words alone. I haven't written anything that wasn't a screenplay in probably three or four years. Maybe someday I'll go back to it.

Good luck with the novel, John.
 
Writing a novel is a lot less restrictive that a screenplay. You've got a lot more time you can spend on side issues and exploring in a novel where a screenplay needs to be tight and always moving forward.
 
Nice thing about a novel is you don't have to worry about budget :thumbsup:
Writing a conversation costs the same as writing a building explosion.

Gotta like that!
Good luck with it John.
 
I hope the novel works well for you. I'd love to read it when you're finished.

Crystal Lake Memories is supposed to be an awesome book. I might have to pick it up myself.
 
Good luck with the novel, John. I've written two novels. The first one is complete garbage and will never see the light of day. I actually like a lot of the second novel but there's a huge subplot I'd want to cut and I'd have to do a major overhaul before I'd attempt to get it published. However, I've decided it would be a better film, so I'm going to adapt it into a screenplay in a couple years (I have other screenplays I want to do first). If you find yourself throwing away huge chunks of writing, don't worry. Hemingway said he wrote 100 pages of garbage for every single page that was great. So he threw out a lot of pages. If Hem can allow himself to write drivel to get to the good stuff, mortals like us can certainly do the same.

I love writing inner dialogue. It's been the hardest thing for me to give up in screenwriting.
 
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