Fable is back - Ready to be a Movie Director?

I blew my 5 hour window in less than an hour doing a pre-release code review of the entire Bookweaver app. Fixed what should be the last of the bugs, doubled its speed and cut its costs even more and added a few extras, but now i have to wait until I can it continue.

Before I went to bed this morning I blew the first window finishing up the plan for a while new piece of the puzzle. Anyone interested in writing branching fiction? This is Choose Your own Adventure style books and online visual novels. I have a 120 page brief created for this. There are only a couple of tools available for the first part and ren'py is the top app for Visual novels.

I originally got started writing seriously again for Nanowrimo 2023 and then got interested in interactive fiction and visual novels (pre-ai). Now I'm coming full circle with this and seeing a point where what we create can easily become interactive fiction and immersive fiction (holo novel style from star trek in VR for instance).

Last night i was playing with plotcrafter and bookweaver and two hilarious plots came up on a semi-random roll that my lovely and wonderful wife thought would be awesome movies more than books and even started laying out the cast of actors needed. I mentioned that yes converting a novel to a screenplay was on the roadmap for wcp (eventually..its a long and ever twistier road) and this thought occurred to me.

We are not long from becoming movie producers as well as writers. As fast as Ai generated movies are being made i can see in the very near future an app that can take a manuscript, create the screenplay, character cards, keyframes, location shots, and put it altogether at major motion picture quality. I haven't had time (or stolen/taken/kidnapped the time needed) to keep up with video. Keeping up with image creation and ai updates is the limit of my bandwidth right now.

I've seen a couple of *really* good short movies made by AI (less than thn minutes) that amazed me. They need help with transitions and voices. Why do ALL ai created voices sound so compressed? two of them were made in less than a day.

When things take off here and I can start being online full time this might be something fun to truly investigate if someone else doesn't get there first (they usually do). BUT, having said that, short animations of characters and covers is now on the roadmap and investigating youtube book trailers as well.

What are your thoughts on this? Are you ready to produce a movie of your books?

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Fable is back - Ready to be a Movie Director?