Writer Caroline O’Donoghue and producers Matt Jordan Smith and Chelsea Morgan Hoffman took a break from filming upcoming series The Rachel Incident to lift the lid on how the project came together and the challenges of adapting a book for the small screen.
Speaking at Dublin’s Storyhouse screenwriting festival in a panel moderated by Morgan Hoffman, O’Donoghue told an audience at the Light House Cinema that failure was a big part of the process of honing your screenwriting craft.
“My history as a novelist is public because I have the novels there on the shelves,” she said. “My history as a screenwriter is private because it has previously been a failure.”
The Irish author has written seven novels, mainly in the YA space, while her bestselling novel The Rachel Incident was her first adult book.
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