Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To write a novel based on.
- transitive verb To turn into fiction; fictionalize.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To change by introducing novelties; bring into a new or novel condition.
- To put into the form of a novel.
- To innovate; cultivate novelty; seek new things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To innovate.
- transitive verb obsolete To innovate.
- transitive verb To put into the form of novels; to represent by fiction; to fictionalize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
adapt something to afictional form, especially to adapt into anovel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb convert into the form or the style of a novel
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Examples
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Adventures of an unsuccessful author with one published book, after he's hired by a charlatan to novelize a C grade movie.
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Take the pantsers, myself included, we have a central theme, plot or concept we want to novelize and it stays in our heads.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Pantsers versus Architects 2007
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I still sort of feel that someone should convince him to novelize this as the big, fat final book of the Eternal Champion series.
The New Lou Review Lou Anders 2006
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I still sort of feel that someone should convince him to novelize this as the big, fat final book of the Eternal Champion series.
Archive 2006-08-01 Lou Anders 2006
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It was this determination to escape by whatever means, no matter how extreme, that led Morrison to novelize the story in order to examine Margaret in psychological depth.
DesignerBlog Will 2007
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It was this determination to escape by whatever means, no matter how extreme, that led Morrison to novelize the story in order to examine Margaret in psychological depth.
Archive 2007-09-01 Will 2007
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It does leave me wondering why they bothered to pick on this particular flick to novelize in the first place.
THE WEREWOLF VS. VAMPIRE WOMAN by Arthur N. Scarm (Guild Hartford 1972) 2005
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It does leave me wondering why they bothered to pick on this particular flick to novelize in the first place.
Archive 2005-09-18 2005
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For example, a paperback publisher could pay a $100,000 advance to a studio for the novelization of an original screenplay that the screenwriter declines to novelize.
The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004
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For example, a paperback publisher could pay a $100,000 advance to a studio for the novelization of an original screenplay that the screenwriter declines to novelize.
The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004
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