Thanks! :-) My novel took 5+ years of blood, sweat and re-writes. Writing a passable screenplay took five days, about six hours a day (evenings 6 - midnight).

Thanks! :-) My novel took 5+ years of blood, sweat and re-writes. Writing a passable screenplay took five days, about six hours a day (evenings 6 - midnight). I don't expect I'll ever sell it, but I'm as certain as anything that it's better than a lot of screenplays that have been sold. I'm mostly a poet, and love structure. Once I understood the structure of a screenplay, it just happened. Novels in contrast are these huge unstructured messy awkward wobbling teenage flailing morasses. The lack of structure, the lack of constraint, the lack of form is something I struggled with for a long time, and while I expect my next effort won't be quite as painful, I don't ever expect it to be easy. "Form is liberating", as the engineer's proverb goes. Novels don't have it, and are therefore much more work.