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Film Courage: How is your approach to writing novels different from writing screenplays?
Adam Davis, Author/Screenwriter/Filmmaker: I’m terrible at writing novels. I say that straight up!
Film Courage: What’s terrible?
Adam: I say that straight up. I don’t think that’s necessarily my forte. Screenwriting is definitely my forte but my approach for writing novels I’ve only done one. I wrote it because I wrote a script and it’s very, very big. I’m like okay, it’s not going to get made necessarily so maybe I should just write a book so that it can be pre-existing IP as a lot of people are doing now. They’ll write a book, it’ll get optioned, turned into a script, turned into a movie. That was kind of my approach for that because I knew that the idea and the script itself was so big.
Film Courage: You said you’re not good at writing a novel, where do you think your weaknesses lie?
Adam: I don’t know if I’m not good at it, I just know that there are so many better writers than me in terms of that sort of prose format.
I don’t think that I really put enough work into figuring out how to write that way. I was using skills that I learned in high school and college. I think writing a novel is a bit of a different skill set than writing screenplays. I was putting all of my time into learning and trying to perfect writing screenplays.
The novel was kind of a departure, it was a fun departure. I learned a lot. I think that helped my screenwriting as well but I haven’t done it since. When people read Circus they’re like we need…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
About:
Armed with a diverse creative palette and a passion for character-centric storytelling, Writer/Director Adam Davis has created numerous short and feature film projects. Credit highlights include the feature Broken Ceiling (nominated for Best Feature at the 2016 Pasadena International Film Festival and available on streaming platforms) and No Touching—starring Zoë Bell (The Hateful Eight), Heidi Moneymaker (Captain America: Civil War), Jake Busey (From Dusk till Dawn: The Series) and Doug Jones (The Shape of Water). No Touching won the Silver Audience Award at the 2016 Fantasia Film Festival and has amassed over 1 million views on YouTube. Adam was also a finalist in the 2022 Screencraft Horror Competition.
Adam’s most recent projects are Curse of the Sin Eater, a horror feature film he co-wrote and co-produced which was released this year and Orum, a horror short film he wrote, produced and directed starring horror icons Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator) and Kristina Klebe (Halloween) which was nominated for Best Horror Short and Best Supporting Actor at the Nightmares Film Festival 2024.
WATCH: CURSE OF THE SIN EATER
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