Summer of '84

[kleenexwoman]

I think I want to adapt things to screenplays for a living. I like writing, but I'm so shit at creating truly original characters, and adapting things to screenplays can give you a lot of leeway to fiddle with characters and dialogue and plot without having to spend the effort building your own stuff up from scratch. It's like fanfic, in a way.

The next project I want to tackle is turning 1984 into a romantic comedy. I THINK IT CAN BE DONE.

Comments

[ladybugandbee.livejournal.com]

Oh shit, I love 1984 so much- that would be amazing XD

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

I find that using real life characters and adapting them is the best route to 'original' characters. Either that or you just write and write and write until your characters become real.

When I was at school I used to do creative writing twice - once to get the plot right and a second time to make it read better. I'm now adopting that with my novel, which is a much bigger undertaking, but in the course of it, the characters are getting much more real (something that your advice has helped me with in one case).

[pianolessdevil.livejournal.com]

IT can be DONE, and IT will be EPIC. :D

[dfordoom.livejournal.com]

The next project I want to tackle is turning 1984 into a romantic comedy.

I'd like to see it done as a musical. It needs singing and dancing!

[neverreal.livejournal.com]

Sounds good! I'm crap at making up characters, too.

[edna-blackadder.livejournal.com]

I know you said screenplays, but I feel I ought to link you to Quirk Books, a.k.a. the publishers behind Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. They might like that idea.