Text Box: Copyright©2006 Robert Dwight Brown & DigiVintage Records Adobe SystemsAdobe SystemsHome News About Us Stage Play Novella Blues Lexicon Christian Message?!? Track List Contact Us Buy CD Links Adobe SystemsText Box: Novella   Having spent three years writing the lyrics to the ambitious Satan’s Preacher Man: The Blues Opera and the last four tweaking lyrics here and there, Robert is currently adapting the story into prose for a novella/novel (depending on how long it is when it’s finished) to be released soon. Robert describes the process of adapting a story that he wrote for one medium into another, “Each medium has its own strengths and weaknesses. A novel has to be a good NOVEL and the movie based on the novel has to be a good MOVIE. The art of the adaptation is taking the elements of the novel and making a good movie out of it (or a novel is this case). Many fans of a novel decry the movie because there are scenes that don’t make it into the movie or the characters don’t look like they are supposed to. The movie you create in your head when you read a book (or listen to the Blues Opera) is your idealized version of it, but when you see the movie adaptation, you are seeing the director’s version of it, which most certainly pales in comparison to the images in your head. The process of adapting the Blues Opera into prose is long and complicated. I have attempted to approach the entire adaptation as if I never wrote the Blues Opera; that the novel is based on someone else’s short story (or a short story I had written ages ago that never really worked). When a writer approaches adapting someone else’s work, they try and make that work their own, bringing as much of themselves and their unique style to the project. I’m trying to approach the characters and the storyline in this light. Satan’s Preacher Man: The Blues Opera tells a unique story and the novella has to tell the same story uniquely. This is where the challenge lies and why the novella may take me some time to write. So please bear with me while I struggle through the birthing pains all over again.”