(I asked this question on the novel boards aswell, and I thought I should get some opintions from the screenplays boards too.)
Two weeks ago I finished my first book that took me about 2 years to write. Last week I spent my time deciding what my next project would be. I had about 5 good ideas and narrowed it down to just one. Some of those ideas were for screenplays and some were for writing another book. My predicament is one of my ideas was a screenplay but as I was outlining the story I liked the characters a lot but I felt the story wasn't strong enough to carry a movie. So I put it aside thinking I might not start it as my next project. I then began working on one of my ideas for another novel. The same thing happened, the characters were great but the story and how I wanted to tell it wasn't suffice enough for a full length novel.
After thinking it over for a day. I came to the realization that both of these stories could be one. They had similar characters and the only thing that needed to change was a bit of the overall story. After tinkering around with them for a few days I had come up with a new idea, by taking some good plot points and characters that I liked from each story. Now the problem I have is I don't know whether to make this story into a screenplay or a novel. Any suggestions or help on how I could make this decision would be great. Thanks.
Two weeks ago I finished my first book that took me about 2 years to write. Last week I spent my time deciding what my next project would be. I had about 5 good ideas and narrowed it down to just one. Some of those ideas were for screenplays and some were for writing another book. My predicament is one of my ideas was a screenplay but as I was outlining the story I liked the characters a lot but I felt the story wasn't strong enough to carry a movie. So I put it aside thinking I might not start it as my next project. I then began working on one of my ideas for another novel. The same thing happened, the characters were great but the story and how I wanted to tell it wasn't suffice enough for a full length novel.
After thinking it over for a day. I came to the realization that both of these stories could be one. They had similar characters and the only thing that needed to change was a bit of the overall story. After tinkering around with them for a few days I had come up with a new idea, by taking some good plot points and characters that I liked from each story. Now the problem I have is I don't know whether to make this story into a screenplay or a novel. Any suggestions or help on how I could make this decision would be great. Thanks.
