What are some of the differences, aside from format, in writing screenplays versus novels?
In a screenplay, you write in a very tight manner, only including what you can either see or hear on the screen. You dont speak about smells, physical touch, inner feelings. Instead you have a character say “peeyoo”, our “ouch, that hurt” or have some action showing feelings, such as throwing a chair at someone. Writing novels will probably be more suitable to individuals that love to discuss the multidimensional aspects of a situation. What a novel could spend twenty pages on, the script resolves by the entry: “He gives her a rose, which she throws back at him.” Screenplays are visual, and should play that way in your mind. Writers that are more photographic in their thinking may take a look at screenplay writing as a possible venue for their stories. Many things about novels and screenplays are quite similar; mainly, the importance of the story itself, the characters, the conflict, the villain, the goal, the obstacles to the goal, the back story, the sub stories, the climax, the reso
