The word "novelize" is usable in written English and is well written.
It is typically used when referring to the process of adapting a story, often from a film or play, into a novel format. Example: "The filmmakers decided to novelize their successful movie to reach a wider audience." Alternatives include "adapt into a novel" or "turn into a novel."
I gave a lecture last year, and someone stuck up their hand and said, "Would you ever" – horrible word – "novelize the series?" And I said, "The only novel I think you could write that wouldn't interfere with the series, would be the prequel – the back story of Robert and Cora falling in love and her coming over as an American heiress".
There were also major works of a genre related to autofiction, known as biofiction, in which authors novelize others' lives instead of their own.
This is what it might mean to "novelize" an idea, to make an idea a kind of character, with a character's inconsistencies and illogicalities and unreason.
Unlike Mattson, Frank does not surrender to any temptation to novelize, even though he is a novelist, the author of a well-regarded "Washington trilogy" that includes "The Columnist" (2001).
The license to novelize someone else's life seems to be based on the assumption that public figures are fair game, that only those of us no one has ever heard of retain the rights to our own experience.
Still, he tells us when he's doing this, and the lack of historical evidence turns out to be his ally, encouraging him to speculate obviously rather than to novelize silently.
"D'Erasmo's novel is an unpretentious attack on unsophisticated novelizing," Caleb Crain wrote in the Book Review last year.
"Tea" returns to the critical honesty of that cup of tea; D'Erasmo's novel is an unpretentious attack on unsophisticated novelizing.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, with his serialized story "Under the Moons of Mars" (1912; novelized as A Princess of Mars, 1917; adapted for film as John Carter, 2012), transformed European-style "literary" science fiction into a distinctly American genre directed at a juvenile audience.
The screenplay for Fantastic Voyage was novelized by Isaac Asimov and released before the film was completed, giving the impression that the movie was based on Asimov's book.
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