Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To write a novel based on: novelize a popular movie.
- transitive v. To turn into fiction; fictionalize: novelize one's personal experiences.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To adapt something to a fictional form, especially to adapt into a novel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- intransitive v. To innovate.
- transitive v. To innovate.
- transitive v. To put into the form of novels; to represent by fiction; to fictionalize.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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 WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. 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.
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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.
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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.
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It does leave me wondering why they bothered to pick on this particular flick to novelize in the first place.
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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.
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Would novelize it, as Monarch Books had novelized such undying film classics as Jack the Ripper, Gorgo, and Konga.
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The exceptions to this are the stories Douglas Adams controls (he will allow no one else to novelize them, and Target cannot pay him the price he require), and four Dalek tales (Terry Nation has control of the Dalek license).
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The books novelize a not-too-cheery interpretation of the Bible, much of it based on the book of Revelation, in which Jesus Christ returns to earth and, in an event known as the
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I began to novelize Mirror's Edge, Read, comment and critique please!
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