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Book SynopsisFilm novels are short, and take about as long to read as a feature film takes to watch. This is a primer on writing film novels - whether you are a beginning novelist, a seasoned writer wanting to cross over into script/novel writing, or a creative writing teacher looking for proven ways to launch new writers.
Trade ReviewThe Film Novelist is a must read for teachers, students and anyone else who loves films and novels. Packard has written a uniquely informative, surprisingly deep yet practical handbook on how to multi-task the creative writing process. -- Jane Kagon is an international media/education consultant and Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg School's Center for the Digital Future, former Director of UCLA's continuing education division for entertainment professionals
Excerpts included in Gotham Writer's Workshop monthly e-newsletter for screenwriters. http://www.writingclasses.com/mailing.php?id=2419
Rather than Balkanizing, categorizing, and compartmentalizing among the various formats and media, Packard's book offers more of a synthesizing, rather than an analytical, orientation. Professor Richard Walter, UCLA Screenwriting Chairman
Clear, concise and instructive. If in trouble, go back to the basics. This book's clarifying points will help more than you may think. --Anne Perry, International bestselling historical fiction novelist
Packard has, miraculously enough, come up with something that is truly new—a practical, pragmatic guide in getting scripts and novels on the page that can be marketed to both communities—literature and film—at the same time, with a sale in one market enhancing and expanding the opportunities in the other. -- Prof. Richard Walter UCLA Screenwriting Chairman
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Stage One: Warming Up; Chapter 1: Sentences - Week One; Chapter 2: Scenes - Week Two; Chapter 3: Subtext - Week Three; Stage Two: Summarizing; Chapter 4: Pitch - Week Four; Chapter 5: Synopsis - Week Five; Chapter 6: Scenario - Weeks Six and Seven; Stage Three: Expanding; Chapter 7: Script - Weeks Eight to Ten; Chapter 8: Novel - Weeks Eleven to Thirteen; Chapter 9: Film - Weeks Fourteen to Fifteen; Conclusion; Appendix; Suggested Readings; The Possibility of Film Novels; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Endnotes.
