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triple34

I've been writing a story in novel form but now i want to create a script with it. So i have a couple of questions that may seem silly. I know that one page of script=one min of movie time. but how many words per page is average. If i have around 14000 words how many pages does that equal to in a script. Any and all advice would be great.

Thanks.
 
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triple34 said:
I've been writing a story in novel form but now i want to create a script with it. So i have a couple of questions that may seem silly. I know that one page of script=one min of movie time. but how many words per page is average. If i have around 14000 words how many pages does that equal to in a script. Any and all advice would be great.

Thanks.
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As 2001 said, there is no fixed number. Unlike novels, screenplays go by page count. For reference, my script pages average about 180-200 words per page. Feature scripts should be limited to 90-120 pages. Of course, that means roughly 23,000 words for a 120 page (2 hr) script.

As a very rough approximation, 14000 words would be approximately 70 pages. However, stories have too much description and internal dialogue. So it would probably be shorter than that if converted to a script. It's impossible to say until you actually write it. Hopefully that will at least give you a rough estimate. Good luck!
 
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14,000 words is a short story bordering on novella, not a novel.

As such it's hard to say how that translates to film. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was based on a short story and was almost 3 hours long. Jane Eyre was based on a 600 page novel and is 2 hours long.

It's all about the adaptation and so it's completely redundant trying to give you that sort of figure.
 
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