Another potential avenue for screenwriters: Short stories made into films

The film industry has a longstanding track record of turning novels into films, but many motion pictures have also been produced that were based on short stories.

Hitchock's The Byrds, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apocalypse Now, Sleepy Hollow, Breakfast at Tiffany's, All About Eve and many others were based on short stories.

If you're like me, you have a plethora of ideas for films, too many to handle, in fact. Not all of them would necessarily translate well into film, but in a short story collection there will always be some that would make great movies.


My short story anthology, No Place For Mercy: An Eclectic Anthology, has been described as “dark, disturbing and thought provoking.” This anthology contains examples of short stories that would make good films and others that would be difficult to adapt.

Three of the short stories in this anthology were first written as short films. Some of the others were planned as feature film screenplays before I decided to adapt them into short stories for the anthology. Still others were written to be short stories and nothing more.

The film industry loves to adapt existing intellectual property. Writing and publishing a short fiction anthology is no guarantee of success, but it provides another creative outlet for your ideas and exposes them to the general public.

If you've got a bunch of ideas that are not fully formed, ideas that are primarily focused on a single action or event, you might consider adapting those ideas into short stories and including them as part of a short story anthology. The key is theme. The theme of my anthology is the absence of mercy that most of the stories focus on, which makes for a dark-themed anthology. Find the theme that connects your short stories and publish them in your collection.

Participating in a KINDLE COUNTDOWN DEAL, the e-Book edition of No Place For Mercy: An Eclectic Anthology is available for $0.99 for a limited time! Read the reviews and then take advantage of this limited time offer before it's too late.


About

Brian G. Walsh is the author of The Last Angel To Fall, volume one of the Jubal Stone Series of urban fantasy novels. https://www.amazon.com/Last-Angel-Fall-Jubal-Stone-ebook/dp/B07TYZXLV2

Walsh is also the author of No Place For Mercy: An Eclectic Anthology, a collection of short stories readers have compared to the writing of Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Rod Serling and others.

https://www.amazon.com/No-Place-Mercy-Eclectic-Anthology-ebook/dp/B00MT4CEZY

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