I’ve been spending the last few months revising several of my long‑running projects. Novels, pilots, and series concepts, and it’s been eye‑opening to see how much my storytelling has evolved across formats.
Some of these stories started as novels and became scripts. Others began as pilots and eventually found their way onto the page as prose. A few have lived in both worlds more than once. Working across mediums has forced me to rethink structure, pacing, character arcs, and emotional focus in ways I didn’t expect. A moment that works beautifully in a novel doesn’t always translate to screen, and sometimes a scene written for TV reveals something the book never articulated. It’s become a kind of creative feedback loop — each project sharpening the others.
I’m curious how other writers navigate this. Have you ever taken a story you wrote years ago and rebuilt it in a different format? Did the screenplay reshape the novel, or did the novel reshape the script? And how did revisiting your older work change your perspective as a writer?
Here’s a collage of the projects I’ve been revising each one at a different stage, each one teaching me something new.
I am at the beginning of that journey myself. I like to start on the page first and then eventually think about screen. I think both formats strengthen my writing muscle.