code:I have to admit I've not quite tried this or weighed a published work against it, but there's an intoxicating simplicity to assuming that book 1 is The Beginning, book 2 is The Middle and book 3 is The End of a 3-act structure.Book 1
[ a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7]
[s1 s2 ]
Book 2
[b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7 ]
[ s3 s4 s5]
Book 3
[c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 ]
[ s6 s7]
quote:That would be convenient, wouldn't it? Alas, I suspect that if you tried it that way, most people would toss book one down in disgust and never bother to look at two or three. remember that some people start trilogies in the middle. And some people read them in reverse order.
Originally posted by BenM:
I have to admit I've not quite tried this or weighed a published work against it, but there's an intoxicating simplicity to assuming that book 1 is The Beginning, book 2 is The Middle and book 3 is The End of a 3-act structure.
quote:Agreed -- but you'd have to be extremely naive to think you could literally write a novel that would translate directly to a screenplay or vice versa.
Originally posted by extrinsic:
Writing for both mediums diminishes both's potentials.
quote:Audiovisual media revenues at least double written word media revenues. Audiovisual media consumer numbers are at least three times written word media consumers, product consumption and time spent.
Originally posted by rcmann:
Extrinsic, I must respectfully disagree with the premise that film is preeminent over the written word. Especially given the current miserable lack of creativity in the film industry.
quote:Traditionally, the path was stageplay to novelization, and similarly, consequently imitations.
Originally posted by MattLeo:
A typical pattern seems to be that you start with books by some author like George R.R. Martin or Charlaine Harris, you go to movies, TV shows, and mini-series, and from there you get a number of literary imitators.
quote:Blessing or curse, television is currently the preeminent fount for inspiration. But then, in spite of market share competition and declining advertising revenues driving contentious interchanges between networks and content providers, satellite and cable, television remains the marketplace forerunner.
Originally posted by MattLeo:
Which is all healthy enough. What is a little disturbing to me is the number of writers who seem to get nearly all their inspiration from television -- sometimes a single identifiable series. There's always been a lot of derivative stuff in the bookstore, but it seems like there's more media-inspired stuff than there used to be.
quote:I wonder whether somehow I'm missing your point in some colossally obtuse way, because as far as I can tell the traditional path went the other way.
Originally posted by extrinsic:Traditionally, the path was stageplay to novelization, and similarly, consequently imitations.