Voyages of the Imagination
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It’s been a while since I looked in the book, but did she do an interview in the “Signature Collection: Duty, Honor, Redemption”? Maybe she only wanted to do the one.
It’s funny, I’ve never been fond of her writing. I particularly don’t care for her Treks 2-4 novelizations (even though they have “deleted scenes”). I always felt they were hastily written. Entropy Effect was ok, and I didn’t care for Enterprise: The First Adventure. But yet, I was interested to know more about her writing experiences on those.
To be fair, novelizations are almost hastily written--by necessity. You usually only have a month or so at most, although, fortunately, the screenwriter has already done a lot of the heavy lifting.
Forty-five days is about my average when it comes to knocking out a novelization.
I love Voyages of Imagination for all of the great behind-the-scenes stories of the writing. I'm guessing that a follow-up edition would be difficult because the original was already pretty thick, and many of the authors' thoughts from the last 14 years of books are somewhere on the internet already.
Around that time, Vonda also already had an extensive set of FAQs on her own website, in which she talked about the controversies that had arisen from some of her Trek books (eg, IIRC, when Richard Arnold became involved midway through her writing of the novelization of ST IV, and certain already-negotiated agreements required renegotiation).
Wow. What's your preferred length of time for a comparable project?
I prefer three or fourth months for an original novel, as opposed to a novelization, but, in a pinch, I've written a few in a month or less.
These are marathons, of course, in which I have no life for a month and may end up pulling a few all-nighters. And definitely easier when I was younger!
These are marathons, of course, in which I have no life for a month and may end up pulling a few all-nighters. And definitely easier when I was younger!
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The fastest I've done a movie novelization is ten days. The punchline was, the book never was published -- the production company sat on the manuscript and refused to approve it, screwing the studio, the publisher, and me.
The fastest I've done a movie novelization that actually got published was Serenity, which I did in 2.5 weeks.
The fastest I've done a movie novelization that actually got published was Serenity, which I did in 2.5 weeks.
I prefer three or fourth months for an original novel, as opposed to a novelization, but, in a pinch, I've written a few in a month or less.
These are marathons, of course, in which I have no life for a month and may end up pulling a few all-nighters. And definitely easier when I was younger!
For reference, are those months for submitting the final manuscript to the publishers or for getting the first draft?
Sorry to hear that.
Been meaning to read that, eps. with the franchise coming back on the printed page lately.
As a rule, the deadlines we're given are for the first-draft manuscript, because the approval, editing, copyediting, etc. are not under the author's control, so the author cannot be held responsible for when they get done.
