Closing the writing loop, again with thanks

[member 656954]

It's only a small PF shout out for my third novel, Handwavium, because it is more techno thriller than pure sci-fi story, so it didn't ask much from the collective brainpower of the forums. Still @Vanadium 50 and @stefan r gave their assists with gravitational wave triangulation, for which I very much thank them.

The next book gets me back into sci-fi proper, with more grunty speculative concepts including wormholes, so I look forward to posing questions that trigger the imaginative fizz that this forum so often responds with

 

[jedishrfu]

Your thread could well be a new novel based on String Theory. :-) Now if only we had a story outline.

Have you looked at the Saves the Cat books by Blake Snyder. They might give you some incentive to write a screenplay from one of your stories and from there a jump to movies.

 

[member 656954]

They might give you some incentive to write a screenplay from one of your stories and from there a jump to movies.

It's an idea, @jedishrfu, and a friend is a screenwriter so I've been hassling him to work up Guardian into a script as I think the novel would suit Netflix's Love, Death & Robots episode Lucky 13. He's provided me with 'how to' guidance, and having looked, novels and scripts are very different beasts and I don't think my skills are up to the task of creating anything worth watching

 

[jedishrfu]

That’s why I mentioned the Save the Cat books. They will honestly get you started. Usually you have to tighten up your story, reduce or combine some characters and adjust the plot for more excitement.

The formula divides a screenplay into three acts and 15 scenes That follow a kind of sine curve for the hero with A and B stories interweaving until the finale.

 

[member 656954]

They will honestly get you started.

Sorry, @jedishrfu, I didn't include that I'm hoping my friend uses his industry contacts to secure the outcome. If it's his screenplay he gets credit and cash, but he's super busy so unfortunately what I see as an incentive, he sees as an inconvenience

And he's sent me a number of script writing guides, none were Save the Cat! though, that one looks useful, thanks.