“Unlocking the Secrets: Transform Your Screenplay into a Gripping Novel with Expert Joe Cornet!”
Ashley
Yeah. So, let’s talk about the writing process, just writing. And obviously, as you said, this is sort of a backwards process, but I do get a lot of screenwriters that have written a script and they think, oh, I’ll turn it into a novel and then maybe I can sell it, self-publish it, sell it and that sort of stuff. So maybe we can speak to this a little bit. Just what are some of the differences that you found writing a screenplay versus writing a novel?
Joe Cornet
Well, this particular book was fairly, I’m not going to say it’s easy, because as you know, it’s not easy. Any one of these processes is not easy. But this one, I had the template of the original screenplay that I wrote years ago. So, what I did was I read it and I reread it, and then I made my margin notes, and then I made my notes in my journals or whatever. And then I just sat down and I pulled it all together. And I thought, okay, what do I want to be bigger and more epic? And I made notations of that, but it basically follows the screenplay in its linear progress. But with a lot of different characters that are added, characters that are already in the screenplay that are different in the book than they are in the movie. And again, I just felt it was an excellent opportunity to open up and get something bigger. And yes, again, to go back to, I would love to remake this movie. We’ll see if that happens. I have two or three other films on my to-do list in this next year, so we’ll see what happens.
