Your Stage : I adapted one of my rom-com screenplays into a novel by Niki Galiano

Congratulations on finishing adapting your screenplay into a novel, Niki Galiano!

Thanks!

You're welcome, Niki Galiano. Happy Holidays!

Congratulations to you I really happy for you, your success is my success if you failed we are also failed

I had to download the Kindle app to my tablet first, but then I was able to get a copy of Stuck.

Thank you, Richard!

Now I just have to find time to read it. Always a challenge but I'm up to it.

Congratulations Niki! I‘m seriously considering doing the same with one of my rom-com scripts, but find it really hard to write prose again after years of minimalistic screenwriting. Will take some time getting used to again :-)

That's no small feat. Congrats!

Thanks, everyone!

Alana, yeah, the cool thing about turning it into a novel, is that you can put back in all those scenes you had to remove from your screenplay, because now you have more room. Lol. I'm working on my second novel adaptation now...it's called "Holo-World", and it's a sci-fi comedy, in the vein of The 5th Element. I'm hoping to be done with it by the end of December. The good thing about adapting your screenplays, is that it it's relatively easy to do, and you can (finally!) start making money on it right away on Amazon, after not making money on it for years. :)

Finished reading "Stuck". It's a fun read.

Thanks, Richard!

My favorite part was the "it isn't easy being green" line.

@richard....Ha! Thanks. I put that one in my last edit in the novel - it wasn't even in the screenplay...so many more ideas came to me as I was re-writing it in novel format.

Congratulations

Congratulations on this amazing milestone! Adapting a screenplay into a novel is no small feat, and it’s incredible to see your creative work evolve into another medium. Stuck in Sunshine Lakes sounds like such a fun and intriguing story—just the kind of rom-com we all need to brighten our days. I’m sure readers will fall in love with the characters and the charm of Sunshine Lakes just as much as you did while writing it.

For anyone looking for a delightful and heartwarming read, grab your copy now! You don’t want to miss out on this one. Wishing you all the best with the novel's success!

@Salman - thank you!!

Niki - After writing the novel, did you go back to the screenplay and incorporate some of the new ideas you had?

@Richard - yes, I did three edits. The first edit, I just re-formatted it from a screenplay to a novel. The second edit - I added new dialogue and ideas. Third edit - I did line-by-line editing for mistakes (although I still missed a few! lol.)

Niki - Was your fourth edit going back to the screenplay to incorporate some of the new ideas you came up with while doing the adaptation?

I just went through that process, and once I finished the novel, I immediately returned to the screenplay. What I thought was good is now a lot better.

Leigh Sheehan Yeah, it's funny...I ended up animating one of my comedy screenplays that made it into the top 5 of a comedy screenwriting contest one year. And while I was animating it, I kept adding in more funny stuff that I didn't think of when I was writing my screenplay. I think when we shift gears, and write it a new way, or produce it, or direct it, we see things that we didn't see before, and it makes us better screenwriters in the end.

Niki Galiano, that's a cool story, Niki. I have directed several projects, and it is always a discovery of interesting material to be added. I found that because I was writing scripts for myself, and by doing that, I would shortcut the scene descriptions. So, when writing a novel, you can't do that; you have to provide a lot more detail. So, after going through the first project's novelisation, I returned to an earlier project I had left for quite a while. I didn't turn it into a book but applied what I learnt . Proof in the pudding: I just got optioned today by a producer on that screenplay.

Leigh Sheehan Congrats!! That is awesome!

I've also found that transitioning a screenplay to prose format has helped me to improve the screenplay. I didn't expect that to happen