: Re: How to approach the Novelisation of a Play So a couple of years ago I wrote a locally succesful one-act play, of which I still really enjoy the world. I want to continue writing in this

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The biggest challenge to any adaptation is letting it be its own work. Every medium has its own demands, and being too faithful to the original can keep the work from living again in the new medium.

In general, novels are more internal than plays, have the added demands of vivid descriptive passages detailing the physical setting and the appearances of the characters, and can more easily escape the "show-not-tell" rule that binds plays and movies.

Because they demand a much higher word count, novels often have more complex plots, subplots and character development as well.

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