A Certain Luxury When You

I Was Like A Well Trained Pianist Who Knows Which Note To Hit, But Can't Make The Music His Own.

A Certain Luxury When You Get To Writing A Novel Is To Have The Space To Have Your Characters Just Banter.

I Like Having My Own Story Remain My Story.

This Wasn't The Way I Had Imagined My Adventures, But Reality Ignored My Wishes From The Get-go, Giving Me A Body Best Suited For Stacking Books In The Library, Injecting So Much Fear Into My Veins That I Could Only Cower In The Stairwell When The Violence Came. Maybe Someday My Arms And Legs Would Thicken With Muscle And The Fear Would Drain Away Like Dirty Bathwater. I Wish I Believed These Things Would Happen, But I Didn't.

The Eternal Challenge For Screenwriter Adapters Is Figuring Out How To Make Something Work On Screen, When So Much Of What Made It Work In The Book Were The Thoughts Of The Character, And Obviously Wanting To Avoid Voiceover.