How to Turn Your Book into a Movie (feat. David and Jackson Hughens) 

Honestly as I'm writing my WIP I'm also writing the screenplay version of it and to say it's a cure for writer's block is an understatement. It actually works when I imagined my novel as a novel but then imagine it as a movie. It's exciting.

I learned screenwriting first and now I'm learning how to write a book. It's possible 😁 Also have done short film projects.

I'm a gardener. I view cutting things out as culling my plants for compost. It'll all work out in the end, my creativity always wins.

This is the video I've been waiting for. I would like to convert my novel into a screenplay. Thank you, Abbie.

Awsome!, I'm writing a book and hoping for it to become an Animated film franchise soon!

I want to start my professional career by writing a movie adaptation of the video game Wipeout. Wipeout is all about anti gravity racing during the start of the 23nd century. It would look amazing as a sports movie with some political intrigue within it I already came up with a protagonist. A young British woman (born in year 2178) who is a newbie rookie in the FX300 League I specialise in screenwriting in college, and writing a screenplay is very different to writing a novel

Wow! This is great advise. Thanks for interviewing them Abbie and Kate!

Thank yo, Kate and Abbie for making this learning experience available to your subscribers . Also a big thank you to this brilliant father and son team. Whenever I write i do visualize a screen action in my minds-eye. As daddy Hudgens pointed out that sometimes converting a book to a screenplay requires the writer to whittle verbiage. I wonder if the converse applies to writers writing their novel. I for one have vivid images while writing and in the process of converting mental images to words, often over embellish descriptions. Just my thoughts, and I sincerely hope i'm not talking out of turn here since i'm still in the infancy stages; a wanna be novilist. I loved the reference Mr Hudgens made to' To kill a mockingbird' which was my grade 10 literature textbook( American Jesuit influence on curriculum in the country where I was born) The sequel-which I read just a few years ago- was even more spectacular as it has a contemporary setting.I truly love both these Harper lee books as they invoke so much pathos. Much appreciated🙏🙏🙏 Opps! if forgot, Rock On

I adapted two of my novellas into screenplays and will be starting pre-production of one of them as my first feature in spring 2023. Excited. So with this video, I'm curious as to what project Abbie is working on that's moving her into film? Adapting 100 days of Sunlight?

Do a "How to Turn Your Book into an Animated Series" next!

I have a question for Abbie (and anyone else who would like to answer this); I'm working on my 2nd book while I take a break from working on my 1st one, and for the first couple of of paragraphs, there are some scientists who are conducting an experiment. They're supposed to be talking really smart, but seeing how I'm not smart at all, how do I sound smart and sound like I know what I'm talking about when I really don't??

Im currently doing this, and animating the prologue to my novel. My problem is how to convey the sort of cerebral things in a visual way.

No Country for Old Men is the book to screenplay example everyone brings up as the ideal success example.

I want to write a movie, but idek how to write a book. There goes my dream 😭

760 Days to Freedom: A Memoir of a Love Story What if love letters exchanged between a young Danish woman and an Englishman in the late 1980s, having lain dormant within a trunk for over three decades, are suddenly revived? How might they choose to respond to the realities of a world that has changed so drastically? Preserving the senders’ distinctive body scents and style of their time, they bring a voice to resonate with brokenhearted souls, young and mature, who had a love that’s now departed. Yet, bringing intrigue, doubt, an implicit threat, drama, loss of control, and a modern pertinence, could they be forgotten forever?

I used to wish that, but after seeing Hollywood pretty much ruining everything they touch nowadays, I'm not so sure...

Gonna have to somewhat disagree with these guys. I'm a member of the WGA West, and have two movies that will be made next year. From my experience, too many novelist naively assume that they already possess the necessary tools for writing a screenplay, when it is a completely different craft. This often leads to them turning in a very poor draft and leaves producers with the task of hiring an accomplished screenplay writer to come in and do a complete rewrite. Yes, a novelist could potentially write a good screenplay, but they should first to take the necessary steps on learning the craft. It also goes the other way around. Screenplay writers can make the mistake of assuming they have the tools necessary for writing a great novel, and often fall short. Novelization is also a craft that must be properly studied in order to excel in. Cheers

I’ll watch this later, because movies and video games have similar worth flows.

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What do you think of Andor? It is great storytelling.

What about turning your book or books into a TV series? I understand what they are saying about a movie , because you can't pack all that information in one movie.. but a series should be different.

How do I send you my book it would be great

Hi I’ve been following you since the beginning I guess, I have this suggestion, can I suggest this, I have a real story , if we can start making episodes by a real sample, its about a women who reached this point of life where she had to take the hardest decision in her life , when her life started to look like a movie

Omg who is that incredibly HOT, respectful and intelligent guy with the warm kind vibes?? 😍😍😍 I liiiiike him & He seems to know your work very well Kate and Abbie. Im poking your side with my elbow now...

The thing about the author turning their book into a movie/TV screenplay/script is that they have full control. I've been disappointed many times when a movie/TV show is nothing like the book. My latest disappointment is the book to TV show, Vampire Academy. I just don't get buying the rights to a book, and then making drastic changes that is completely different from the book. But, an idea grew from this last disappointment. If the people who buy the rights to a book don't intend to stay faithful to the primary story, is what they create not fan fiction? And if it's fan fiction, shouldn't the author sell fan fiction rights instead of selling the book rights? The author could save the rights to the book for someone who intends to remain faithful to it. And then I got to thinking . . . there are many different genres/categories of fan fiction, so why not add keywords to hone the fanfic down to specific niches and sell more than one fan fiction rights? IMO, the fan fiction rights should not include the use of the title/s of the book or book series, nor the use of the character's names. And then I thought, what about selling fan fiction rights to other authors? (Somewhat like Amazon did with their "Kindle Worlds" publishing company. Which partly is behind this whole thought process.) This idea of selling fan fiction rights to other authors will need more thinking. I wouldn't want the fan fiction to use any of my original content in the same context as I do, but it could put my characters on a parallel world, or in a completely different genre/category. The idea of selling fan fiction rights for movies and TV shows is definitely the way to go though. If they're going to make fan fiction from your book, then that is the rights they should pay for.

As I tell people when I do edit and story development stuff for people - *"Trim the fat and get better back."* 👀

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Could you make a video on how to write a Yandere character?

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In a nutshell, if you don't need the scene/ dialogue to get the point across, cut it out. Also, read up on formatting.

Can u just talk about watt pad stories....

I think it is very clear. And of course the vlogger and their faithful will never agree…. If you want to write a book, for MONEY, then using Jewish ww2 survival, gay, trans or black oppression, or even any anti white -anti white male narrative, will push you through the publishing process quicker. I know this because I took statistics in college to earn my degree so I could work for the Boston Red Sox, anyways, 1 of my 54 statistics reports was a breakdown of a local book store. I used 12,000 titles published after a certain date, broken into 24 categories. Trust me. It’s true.

If it's not functional, then it might not belong in the story.

Oh thats a "baby" in the back ground those puppies get stupid hot 🤣yee ouch "barn doors" leave lines.🤣🤣🤣but yeah gotta get "The Embrace" correct first but yeah we gotta play with hollyweird. I dont hate hollyweird I dont know hollyweird but I hate hollyweird.

Not every story needs a character arc. A charcter can change but dosent have to be like disney.