Hey, writers. Our forum & workshop should welcome an honorary new member (well, of sorts) in the person of mister James Cameron, the former PUPIL OF <coughs> [...OK, OK, perhaps it was COLLABORATOR WITH...] um, Mr. OSC on The Abyss.
Anyway (on a more serious note), Cameron's authoring a book that, similar to the way The Abyss book did with regard the movie, is going to get into the characters and backstories of Avatar.
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[EDITED. SECOND TAKE.] Maybe we should give James Cameron an honorary membership to our forum, seeing that he now intends to novelize Avatar apparently primarily by HIMSELF, having been schooled by the example of our own Mr. Card with The Abyss. [CLEARER?]
[This message has been edited by Nathaniel Merrin (edited February 18, 2010).]
Post it in the Grist for the Mill where random stuff like this is meant to be.
And please make your title indicative of the subject: James Cameron to write Avatar novel.
Nathaniel,
It's funny you mention this because I just posted something about Brooks, and I believe he put THE PHANTOM MENACE into book form after the movie came out. Gee wiz, used to be the books made the movies, is the reverse about to take off?
It's not usenet, or an otherwise unmoderated place for random silliness, and a new user can look at other posts to see whether people are making big attention-grabbing headlines and bizarre statements to gauge the tone of the forum.
I see nothing wrong with billawaboy's statement: if the author of the thread wants to get a feel for how this sort of post will be received my some members, now he knows. I must say I felt like responding in much the same way. But then, maybe billawaboy and I have different critiquing styles
Oh and Nathaniel, you're "I don't know where to post this" is getting annoying. It's like you're asking us to do you're work for you there are descriptions of each forum written under them. Read those and if you think your topic fits post it. (And yes, I think this should have been in grist for the mill.) Just post your stuff where you think it goes, if you're wrong you will be corrected, no big deal. We're not going to hit you with a big stick so stop putting your hands up.
[This message has been edited by Pyre Dynasty (edited February 17, 2010).]
Of course, it could also go in the Discussing Published Books and Hooks, come to think of it.
I may still move it depending on how it goes. If I do, it will close here, and there'll be a note from me telling y'all where to find it.
Discussions about someone else's published writing goes in the Published Books and Hooks area.
Announcements on sales and reviews of participants own work goes in the Publications and Reviews area.
The Grist for the Mill area is for things that happen to people that are not directly related to writing, but may be a source for ideas for stories (as in "it's all grist for the mill"). It's also for things that people want to share in their lives that have nothing to do with writing, but they want to share them because they feel they have friends here--or for things they just have to tell someone, anyone.
Anyone who has a question about where a topic should go can always email me about it.
If we don't allow for an expansion of the topics, Open Discussions About Writing will inevitably just keep re-churning the same old questions around.
Also, I see several different angles to come at this from:
Many noveliazations of movies are a franchise decision--they chooe "name" authors to sell the book. I haven't seen a book turned into a movie whose novelization was by an entirely different author. The only thing close to this I've seen is with Jumper.
They changed Steven Gould's book, and hired him to write the movie-based sequel (based on a character who wasn't even in te first book).