Jaime Clarke Vernon Downs/World Gone Water/Garden Lakes/We're So Famous:

Every novelist dreams of selling their work to Hollywoodand reserves the right to decry the resultseven those of us who write books that dont intuitively translate to the screen. How did they make a movie out of that? is an old party game writers indulge in, their hopeful hearts filled with secret jealousy. But the answer to how a film is made from what would outwardly seem like a plotless novel reveals the truth that every novel has a narrative structure a seasoned screenwriter can borrow, or choose to work against, or welldrawn characters that the hired gun can drop into circumstance. Hopefully both. For these screen adaptations of the standalone novels in my trilogy featuring Charlie MartensVernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden LakesI was interested in something else entirely a thematic adaptation of each that captures the essence of the novels while completely reimagining them plotwise. The challenge was the catalyst for wholesale invention and between fits of despair and inspiration, I was able to find my through the material in a way that honored the books, but also reinvented them. If nothing else, these are my best answers to that old writerly party game. Jaime Clarke | Jaime Clarke Vernon Downs/World Gone Water/Garden Lakes/We're So Famous: