I've taken a break from writing a screenplay and turned my attention to writing a novel. The reason I'm doing this is that I have an idea for a story that just does not lend itself to indie filmmaking. It's just too big. "The Mongol horde swept across the plains" is seven words in a novel. In a film it's seven million dollars.
Anyway, having gotten about 10,000 words down on paper I think I'm still writing a screenplay. I mean, it's formatted like a novel but I'm still in screenplay mode: short descriptions followed by lots of dialog. I glanced at a couple of novels from my bookshelf and found just the opposite: lots of description and sparce dialog.
I need to switch into novel writing mode, if there is such a thing. Start doing things that screenwriters are never supposed to do. Get into my characters heads and reveal their thoughts instead of trying to reveal everything through words and actions.
Screenplay vs novel
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