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Film scripts and treatments (prose version of the story with everything explained for the moron producer) have rules-of-thumb for length:
treatment - basic outline with all twists in four pages, all detail in sixty pages or less.
script - one page per screen minute, most screenplays 100+ pages to edit down to 96 minutes. (pages are very loosely laid out.)
Almost all novelisations of screenplays are around the 200 page mark, and all contain extra detail to pad out to this length. Two pages a minute is an exaggerated, rough conversion.
At this rate, it shouldn't surprise anyone that whole subplots have to be removed from even the simplest of novels.
The corollary - would anyone have the stamina to sit through a full-length version of this kind of novel?
(And don't cry "mini-series", since the problem of editing a story into seven minute slices is even worse, and the results uglier.)
Faelan
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