As an author, it should be important to identify your style, the genre and ask yourself, what compels me to write this book?
Years ago, I would watch my father spend hours reading book after book after book, and one day I asked him what type of books do you prefer?
My father explained to me that he likes a strong main character who is compelled to find the bad guy and bring him down, or a quest to save the world from destruction…you know, the ever compelling action hero that saves the day no matter what hurdles he or she needs to overcome.
When I finally got serious about writing, I read all of the books written by Michael Crichton, several times over. Crichton wrote in what I call from a visual aspect.
It turns out that Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, The Lost World, Sphere, Congo, The Great Train Robbery and so many more, transitioned into great movies. I understood quickly, and from all of Michael Crichton’s books, that his style of writing with a movie film project in mind is the way, I wanted to write books.
From this discovery, I created my 3-step-process for creating a great literary project.
First, I write a 90-120 page first draft movie script. Then I dive into a 300-400 page novel and expand the characters and the overall complexity of the story. When the book format is edited and published, with so much more entertainment value, I can now do the Final Draft of the movie script having learned so much more about the story from the book.
This might sound like an exhausting process, but it actually allows for proper formatting off what we call the 3-act-play, where story, format and character arcs are properly prepared, and acted in a way that movies are constructed.
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DOMINATION DRONE, THE ERA of the DRONE WARS
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