I’ve been rereading Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White, and wondered why variations of this novel have been used again and again, not only in movies and television, but also in books and plays.
Apropos of which, why does the public domain offer such rich source material? Some 50 Disney Movies Are Based On The Public Domain. The movies include Alice in Wonderland (of course), and Frozen, Disney’s take on Hans Christian Anderson’s story, The Snow Queen.
Film makers and authors raid public domain materials, and often craft bestsellers from them. Could you do it?
Public domain riches: could they help you to craft a bestseller?
After thinking about it, I realized that public domain materials offered two essential elements for bestselling fiction:
- An amazing story, which has stood the test of time;
- Emotion.
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