From the page you readto the page you shoot.

XLAdapt does the adaptation work between a novel and a screenplay — the story bible, the scene index, what to cut and what to keep — so you start writing from the structure, not from a blank page.

Which way are you going?

I have a novelTurn it into a screenplayA story bible, every scene indexed, a plan sized to a feature, and a skeleton in XLScreenplay — then, if you want it, a draft, one scene at a time.Being built — the bible and the scene index work in XLWrite I have a screenplayTurn it into a novelChapters from your sequences, a point of view for each, who is in them, where and when — set up in XLWrite for you to write the book.Next, after novel to screenplay

What adaptation is

Mark up the book: the passage that is a scene, the line that is dialogue, the moment that is a picture. Then turn each mark into what a screenplay says instead.

Chapter Three

Mara found him in the lamp room, polishing glass that was already clean. The storm had been building since noon, and the windows hummed with it.

“You’ve been up here since noon,” she said.

He did not turn. “The weather’s coming in. Somebody has to keep the light.”

She set the lantern down between them, and for a long time neither of them spoke.

The novel

INT. LIGHTHOUSE - LAMP ROOM - NIGHT

Storm-light. TOM polishes glass that is already clean. MARA climbs into view.

MARA

You’ve been up here since noon.

TOM

(not turning)

The weather’s coming in. Somebody has to keep the light.

She sets the lantern down between them. Neither speaks.

The screenplay