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curated by screenwriter Karen Walton

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Tagged adaptations:

All About Ava:  a typical day at my kitchen table, a space reserved for the work of adapting Ian Hamilton’s wonderful mysteries series for films with, thank goodness, his generous & invaluable guidance.

Tools:  hard copies of the books, highlighters, a 3” D-ring binder for the working & published Drafts (for making my own changes & cuts by hand), Notes and Correspondence - printed out -, a dedicated Moleskine (where I work things out beat by beat before I type anything), stickies, endless colour-coded stickies, pens - Uniball Fines & Sharpies - though the purple is unusual and probably nicked from a tv writing room along the way.

Apr 07
All About Ava:  a typical day at my kitchen table, a space reserved for the work of adapting Ian Hamilton’s wonderful mysteries series for films with, thank goodness, his generous & invaluable guidance.
Tools:  hard copies of the books, highlighters, a 3” D-ring binder for the working & published Drafts (for making my own changes & cuts by hand), Notes and Correspondence - printed out -, a dedicated Moleskine (where I work things out beat by beat before I type anything), stickies, endless colour-coded stickies, pens - Uniball Fines & Sharpies - though the purple is unusual and probably nicked from a tv writing room along the way.

I have an ‘open studio policy’ about how I write on inkcanada’s Facebook Group, and while I’m not of the (often idiotic) school of self-declared experts (‘Do It This Way or You’re a Moron!’ - um, blow me), I sometimes write about how at least I go about things, in case it’s useful to students of the crafts, from only my perspective. And because, working screenwriters rarely document their own process publicly, in Canada, I’m doing it to entice commentary from my lurking peers & betters. ;)  ‘Adaptology’ is a Doc-in-Progress about what happens when I adapt a pre-existing story from another medium into a feature film. A rambling account, sorry, cobbled from notes for a talk I recently gave at the Saskatchewan Writers Guild’s Talking Fresh 10 event, in Regina.

Apr 06
I have an ‘open studio policy’ about how I write on inkcanada’s Facebook Group, and while I’m not of the (often idiotic) school of self-declared experts (‘Do It This Way or You’re a Moron!’ - um, blow me), I sometimes write about how at least I go about things, in case it’s useful to students of the crafts, from only my perspective. And because, working screenwriters rarely document their own process publicly, in Canada, I’m doing it to entice commentary from my lurking peers & betters. ;)  ‘Adaptology’ is a Doc-in-Progress about what happens when I adapt a pre-existing story from another medium into a feature film. A rambling account, sorry, cobbled from notes for a talk I recently gave at the Saskatchewan Writers Guild’s Talking Fresh 10 event, in Regina.

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Posted on Sunday April 7th 2013 at 12:32pm. Its tags are listed below.

All About Ava:  a typical day at my kitchen table, a space reserved for the work of adapting Ian Hamilton’s wonderful mysteries series for films with, thank goodness, his generous & invaluable guidance.
Tools:  hard copies of the books, highlighters, a 3” D-ring binder for the working & published Drafts (for making my own changes & cuts by hand), Notes and Correspondence - printed out -, a dedicated Moleskine (where I work things out beat by beat before I type anything), stickies, endless colour-coded stickies, pens - Uniball Fines & Sharpies - though the purple is unusual and probably nicked from a tv writing room along the way.
All About Ava:  a typical day at my kitchen table, a space reserved for the work of adapting Ian Hamilton’s wonderful mysteries series for films with, thank goodness, his generous & invaluable guidance.
Tools:  hard copies of the books, highlighters, a 3” D-ring binder for the working & published Drafts (for making my own changes & cuts by hand), Notes and Correspondence - printed out -, a dedicated Moleskine (where I work things out beat by beat before I type anything), stickies, endless colour-coded stickies, pens - Uniball Fines & Sharpies - though the purple is unusual and probably nicked from a tv writing room along the way.

All About Ava:  a typical day at my kitchen table, a space reserved for the work of adapting Ian Hamilton’s wonderful mysteries series for films with, thank goodness, his generous & invaluable guidance.

Tools:  hard copies of the books, highlighters, a 3” D-ring binder for the working & published Drafts (for making my own changes & cuts by hand), Notes and Correspondence - printed out -, a dedicated Moleskine (where I work things out beat by beat before I type anything), stickies, endless colour-coded stickies, pens - Uniball Fines & Sharpies - though the purple is unusual and probably nicked from a tv writing room along the way.

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Posted on Friday April 6th 2012 at 09:42am. Its tags are listed below.

I have an ‘open studio policy’ about how I write on inkcanada’s Facebook Group, and while I’m not of the (often idiotic) school of self-declared experts (‘Do It This Way or You’re a Moron!’ - um, blow me), I sometimes write about how at least I go about things, in case it’s useful to students of the crafts, from only my perspective. And because, working screenwriters rarely document their own process publicly, in Canada, I’m doing it to entice commentary from my lurking peers & betters. ;)  ‘Adaptology’ is a Doc-in-Progress about what happens when I adapt a pre-existing story from another medium into a feature film. A rambling account, sorry, cobbled from notes for a talk I recently gave at the Saskatchewan Writers Guild’s Talking Fresh 10 event, in Regina.

I have an ‘open studio policy’ about how I write on inkcanada’s Facebook Group, and while I’m not of the (often idiotic) school of self-declared experts (‘Do It This Way or You’re a Moron!’ - um, blow me), I sometimes write about how at least I go about things, in case it’s useful to students of the crafts, from only my perspective. And because, working screenwriters rarely document their own process publicly, in Canada, I’m doing it to entice commentary from my lurking peers & betters. ;)  ‘Adaptology’ is a Doc-in-Progress about what happens when I adapt a pre-existing story from another medium into a feature film. A rambling account, sorry, cobbled from notes for a talk I recently gave at the Saskatchewan Writers Guild’s Talking Fresh 10 event, in Regina.

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Posted on Saturday February 11th 2012 at 01:56pm. Its tags are listed below.

Ava Lee & Me

Ian Hamilton's The Water Rat of Wanchai (An Ava Lee Novel)

Um, confirmed.  Thanks so much to all my Twitter pals for the very lovely wishes & mentions, wow.  And to Sandra Cunningham & Robin Cass, producers & executives in charge at  Toronto’s Strada/Union for including me in the Ava Lee
adventure!