Back at it! I'm not Brian after all!

So apparently 37k words is too short. That's all I squoze out of the "novel writing machine," where I had the script PDF up on one side of the screen, and a MS Word doc next to it. I read the former and input into the latter, translating, cutting and embellishing on the fly. The worst part was training myself to write in the past tense rather than the screenwriter's present tense.

It's clear that I either need to publish this as a novella, a YA novel, or the hard bit, which is take another pass and put in all the stuff you learn to omit as a screenwriter: detailed visual and other sensual descriptions, interior thoughts and feelings, illustrative tangents, etc. That, or I could make all the characters say "um" and "like" and "y'know" a lot. That'd up the word count.