Adapting Your Book to Screenplay by Autocrit

If you’re anything like most writers I know, you might picture every story you write as a movie in your head. 
Seeing your characters on the figurative “screen” in your mind. Hearing the dialogue you wrote performed by actors. (Fun fact: I like to “cast” every idea with actors, to help me picture their mannerisms, movements, and even voices as I write.)

If so, you’re already not far from that cinematic vision: seeing the world you built captured on film. Your name in the opening credits. 
It’s not as unreachable as you think.

This Thursday, November 13th at 7pm Eastern, special guest Brock Swinson – author of Ink by the Barrel and consultant to multi-million dollar brands – arrives exclusively at AutoCrit to walk you through the exact process of adapting your book into a screenplay.

With practical, technical steps, you’ll see exactly what to do to transform your story into a script format that producers and studios can actually use – something most authors never learn.

In this exclusive 2-hour live workshop, we’ll cover:

• The essential differences between novel writing and screenwriting – why prose that works beautifully on the page falls flat when translated directly to screen… and how to fix it.
• How to condense your story without gutting it – the techniques for compressing a 90,000-word (or more) novel into a 110-page screenplay while keeping the emotional core intact.
• How to visualize and dramatize for film – turning internal monologue and descriptive passages into action and dialogue that actually play on screen.
• Proven structure techniques for successful adaptations – the screenplay beats that differ from novel structure, and where your story needs to hit them.

Brock is an author who understands storytelling from both the page and the screen, so he knows exactly where writers struggle with adaptation.

You’ll walk away with a clear roadmap for adapting your book, whether you’re planning to pitch it yourself, shop it to producers, or just want to understand how your story would work in a different medium.

(Because if screenwriting work is something that’s been on your radar, it actually makes for excellent practice to try adapting books as an exercise.)