What’s adaptation?

Sometimes we share the liking for telling stories and telling them well. Or the wish to adapt them to listen to or look at them in some other way cause we want to experience them in a particular way. In the darkness of a room and eating popcorn. In the darkness or brightness of a room and listening to great voices.
There really is something about adapting, that is outside the common places of the plot. You can’t write without knowing the peculiar and charming features of each media. You need to be sly when reading how to write manuals.
Writing is similar to Designing. THERE’S NO METHOD.
JELLY AND PROCESS
If I ever did pay attention in Aesthetics of design class. I can convincingly say a method is something we use when we know the result of it.
Think of jelly. It’s always the same. You know the colour, the flavour and the texture you will get at the end (after all you chose such characteristics displayed in the box). You boil water, mix the powder, pour it into a container, cool it in the fridge. Wait the time. Always the same result. There shouldn’t be any variation to it. No surprises. Unless you knowingly added or omitted a step. Yet, you know what you’re changing.
Once the result is something unknown because you don’t have idea what you’re getting in the end. I meant we know you will end up with a novel, script or comic but do we really know the shape it will take? Doesn’t the final product differ a lot from the original draft? I’m such cases there’s no method. We have a process model.
HILARY MANTEL
She, whom I’ve already had the shameless to paraphrase, explains what adaptation is, in a Reith lecture. Here the link in case you feel like listening to. It’s my not humble opinion you should go and listen to it.

