Quite simply, what are you adapting? A book? A play? And into what? A movie or a television show? Just post here saying what you're adapting and what it will be.

I'm going to adapt the book Thirteen Reasons Why into a movie. It's one of my favorite books and I've been wanting to do this for a while.

What is everyone else doing?

I'm thinking of adapting the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce. These books were very influential in my early teens, and I've always wanted to see them in film. I'm thinking of splitting the four books into two screen plays, because the age change (10-late teens) in the main character is quite dramatic for one screenplay.

I'm adapting the video game Kingdom Hearts into a movie :)

To those doing Kingdom Hearts and The Lioness Quartet-- I kind of want to see those as movies. Please stick to the source material! I love them both.

As for myself, I'm adapting Untold Memories: Rayai. It's my own book, so I want to make a movie that accurately show the original intent I had in the novel. I'm looking forward to getting to work on it.

Have a nice day!
Moya

I am adapting the novel that I wrote for JanNO - A life More Ordinary. It is about circus folk trying to make a go of it in the burbs :)

I am also trying to finish up the final editing on the original novel and submit it to Lulu.com for publication. Wish me luck :)

Anne Marie

JanNo - Goal Winner 2009 - A life More Ordinary
FebNo – Goal Winner 2009 – Darkness and Light
EdMo – Goal Winner 2009

I am also adapting one of my own books. The current title is 'A Fairy Tale', but that could change. It's a series I haven't worked on in a while. *rolls eyes* Time to get it going again, I think.
I used to hate it when the screenwriters twisted book plots to fit into movies; now I'm beginning to see the joy in it. :D

I, too, am adapting one of my NaNoWriMo's. It's very visual and it'll be fun to see as a made-for-TV-movie - or a series, I could expand it to a series. I like to think big.

I'm adapting my NaNoWriMo novel from last year into a screenplay. Technically it's about superheroes, so it should transfer more into a comic book format, but I think it's a visual enough concept with enough emotional impact to make a decent movie. Admittedly, the CG budget would be a bit high, given that for the majority of the novel the main character's eyes are on fire ^_^;;

I'm adapting 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (in space) into a graphic novel. Hope it doesn't make M. Verne turn in his grave.

I'm adapting my '07 NaNo novel, Bad Company, which I'm currently editing, into both a graphic novel and a movie. It's the prequel to my long-planned (and still planned, alas) manga series, Spanner, which I wrote some script for last year that I need to rewrite this year. Considering the speed at which I write scripts, I might just do the Spanner rewrite this month, too...

I'm going to be adapting a story I started into a television pilot. The way I imagined it, I think television is the perfect fit for it. It just has such potential to become a serial thing, like CSI, Numb3rs and the like...

Death toll: 7 named, about 181 unnamed

I'm adapting the first novel in the Dragonlance Series, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. I'm excited and hope to not leave out any part that is important in the novels.

I'm adapting the first book of the Sweep series by Cate Tiernan. This is my first time writing a script and also--obviously--my first time writing an adaptation. How do you think I should play out internal dialogue or thoughts coming to a person mind-to-mind (telepathy) in the story? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I'm adapting my 2008 Nano novel into a screenplay. (Go to my Screnzy page to find a link to the original material).

I'm thinking about doing an adaption of a final fantasy game or maybe a book (I know, could I get vaguer?) into a movie. I've never written a really long script before so I figure adaption will increase likelihood of completion.

Then again I have two scripts for comics sitting on my computer waiting for me to finish. They're making mean faces at me.

I'm going to be making a screenplay out of the song 'Sister Ray' by the Velvet Underground.

I'm adapting my favorite book, Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews. I've wanted to for years, and thought Script Frenzy would be the perfect motivation. A film was made back in the 80s which was horrendous, and I just found out VC Andrews's ghostwriter has rewritten the screenplay and plans to film it soon. So, I'm pretty much just doing it for my own enjoyment!

I'm adapting the novel 'What is to be done?' by Nikolai Chernyshevsky. The novel is very long (400+ pages) and not much read outside of Russian history/literature classes, but it has lots of drama and snarky dialogue between the author and a really obnoxious reader character, weird dream sequences, and conversations between the author and the characters. It was a huge influence on 3-4 generations of revolutionaries, artists and scientists in Russia. I'm putting some of the book's real-life readers (revolutionaries, scientists, artists) into the story in a play-within-a-play format.

I'm adapting the Jacqueline Wilson book Candyfloss into a stageplay. I've already planned it as Floss's thoughts can easily transfer into monologue, and it's easy enough to do because it's such an easy book to read, and has such a good story to it.

I'm adapting my favourite game, 2k Games' BioShock. Since most of the game's plot is streamed through a first-person view with a mute character as a protagonist, I've decided to ditch that and instead write a prequel, illustrating how Andrew Ryan's dream of a world built on free enterprise, "where the great will not be constrained by the small," slowly turned into a nightmare. Should be fun.

I'm going to have a go at adapting one of my own stories into a screenplay. It's a Swashbuckler called The Black Mast :)

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I'm adapting my NaNo 2007 (and maybe adding the 2008 one in the same series) "The Heatstroke Chronicles" into a screenplay.

Should be interesting enough...I'm just calling it "Heatstroke: A Screenplay" for now, although that may change.

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I'm adapting Neil Gaiman's American Gods into a screenplay.

I'm adapting a book by Jonathan Nasaw called 'The World on Blood'. It's set in 1991 or so and is about a group of 'vampires'. The vampires is in quotes cause they're live people who have an addiction to blood the same way someone else would be addicted to crack. The heightened strength, senses and sensitivity to light are given as side effects of the blood addiction.

I'm adapting an online, erotic, coming of age story (no, not underaged sex!) called "The Millionaire Next Door" by Lazlo Zalezac. I decided not to use one of my own stories for this frenzy as I didn't want to get lost in the story, instead focus on the details of a good screenplay. It has a good morality play, interesting characters, and a wealth of plotlines. Fitting it into a screenplay is going to be quite a fun challenge.

I started this kind of crazy project a few months back (late December 08) that is a novel in four parts/book of short stories. The basic idea being that they are four fairly long short stories that can, technically, stand alone, but will be incorporated together into a larger piece ... I'm still hoping it'll work out like I want it to.
Anyway, the novel is called Changeling, based on my own special version of changelings (children stolen by the Fae and replaced by ... myths vary), and the four parts include being taken, escaping from Faerie, finding out about being replaced and dealing with that, and then trying to save others from the same fate.
ANYWAY, I'm adapting the first story, the Taking, to a screenplay. (Hopefully I will finish the story before I have to start adapting it ... but I'm actually not too worried; I have enough written and enough in my head (I actually know how it'll end!) that I can do it, even it's part adaptation and part original writing, at the time of writing.)
It's horror/dark fantasy, which I have NEVER done before, so I'm a bit nervous about that ... but the images in my head are pretty awesome, which was part of the reason I wanted to adapt it to a screenplay, because Faerie is just gorgeous!

I was going to adapt my NaNo08 novel, because I had no plot, but you know those online text roleplays? They're like writing a story, but each person controls one character? An online friend and I have been writing one since the beginning of last August, and it's certainly novel length by now, and we're nowhere near done. I was looking for a plot, I logged on, and her newest reply included a little note like: "Hey, if this was a movie, what would we call it? Out of curiousity." And I was like, "PLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT IDEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" xD
So I'm adapting a novel-length roleplay that's growing every day. Gonna be fun, it is.

I'm adapting my novel, Moonless, which is about cats, into a screenplay. But the novel's not finished, nor published, so I'm not sure if it really counts as an adeptation... Ph. Oh well. :)

------------------- "To find yourself, play hide and seek alone." -- Anonymous NaNoWriMo: 2008 - Vampire

"I'm adapting Neil Gaiman's American Gods into a screenplay."

I want to see/read that! That's awesome as hell! I love Neil Gaiman.

I'm adapting my own Twilight fanfiction story into a stage play. It's a bit odd, and I don't think he'll sparkle, but I swore to myself that I would do it. Plus, it's a great way of wasting time. Hope to finish my challenge. See ya.

Yours,

R.C. Evans

Adapting Nancy McKenzie's Queen of Camelot. Originally I was just going to smush it into a two hour movie - about 120 pages - but now I'm considering maybe a four part miniseries. Hmm...