User blog:VicGeorge2K9/How to do adaptations for fanfiction

Doing story adaptations of a Smurfs comic book story or cartoon episode as fanfiction is a tricky business, especially if you're going to be using your own characters in the adaptation. Some stories are so short that they require expansion, and some stories are so long that they require compression, and sometimes stories may require a bit of both. But the thing is, regardless of story length, writing for comic books and writing for TV shows differ from each other and they also differ from writing for fanfiction in mostly text because you're working in a different medium. People have to imagine in their minds what it is you're talking about as well as all the different characters and locations that appear in the adaptation. There's also the whole issue of keeping faithful to the original versus having artistic liberty and license, which if you're using original characters that did not appear in the original version requires the latter more than the former. In my adaptation of "The Jewel Smurfer" called "Empath The Bandit Smurf", because Empath was used as the substitute character for Jokey in the original, lines had to be written and actions had to be modified to emphasize his character over that of the original because Jokey mostly lives for humor and making practical jokes while my own character Empath mostly lives for overseeing the village and helping other Smurfs out. Also because Empath has powers, which Jokey doesn't have other than the occasional "hammerspace" for pulling his surprises on people, the amnesia angle had to be brought in to keep Empath from using them as an easy way out. And lastly, where in the original where Jokey was with Hefty in Lord Caravellan's castle that Jokey decides to pull a joke on somebody, in my adaptation Empath was with Hefty and they instead run into Polaris Psyche who is there to help Empath break out of his amnesiac state.