Jeff Lyons
"Unlike with screenplays, novels are meant to be read, not produced, and the finished book is a final product, ready to be consumed by an audience."
— Jeff Lyons
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"The movie or TV show is the finished product; a screenplay is not. Scripts are only one step in a complex chain of events leading to the final show or film."
— Jeff Lyons
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"Screenwriters and novelists see the world in very different ways, and have very different observing devices for interpreting their fictional worlds. Shifting from a screenwriting sensibility to a prose sensibility is the hardest hurdle you will face and also the most difficult one to wrap your head around."
— Jeff Lyons
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"Never use screenwriters as your [novel] beta readers. You need feedback from people who are voracious book readers, not film/TV fans."
— Jeff Lyons
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