Having been overwhelmed with work, family life and MA studies, I didn’t keep a reflective blog for the whole of the last Writer’s Room module. Shame on me.

However, it’s a new module and a new day, and I’m going to attempt to do some reflection. It may be simple but I’m at least going to try.

Having mulled all the options, I’ve decided my professional case study is going to be on the process and business of adaptations from existing IP. Not the creative process, that’s an entire course in itself, but the nuts and bolts of optioning books, news articles, blogs, short stories etc. It’s a huge part of the entertainment industry which I don’t really understand and I feel I should.

My pitch bible, coincidentally, is going to be the adaptation of an autobiography which I tried and failed to option a couple of years ago. The book has in my opinion all the ingredients needed to make a great screenplay, even if it’s purely an exercise.