Your Story Has More Than One Life

Luring Press offers practical, rigorous education for writers who want to develop stronger stories, move intelligently between formats, and understand the long-term value of what they create.

No formulas for guaranteed success. No promises of overnight careers.

Just serious instruction from working storytellers building original work across publishing and the screen.

Don’t Leave Your Story to Die in a Drawer

You finished the screenplay.

Perhaps it placed in competitions, attracted interest, received encouraging coverage, or came painfully close to becoming something.

Perhaps it never made it past the first gatekeeper.

Either way, the story still exists.

A screenplay can be a powerful professional sample. But it can also become something readers can experience directly—without waiting for production, financing, or permission.

It can become a novel, reach readers directly, begin building an audience, and take its place inside a catalogue of intellectual property you own.

But adaptation is not a matter of copying stage directions into paragraphs and calling it prose.

A screenplay and a novel create immersion differently. The characters need interior lives. The world needs depth beyond what the camera can see. Scenes must be rebuilt around a reader’s experience. Structure, point of view, description, pacing, and emotional architecture all change.

That transformation is what Screenplay to Novel teaches.

Screenplay to Novel

Give Your Screenplay a Second Life

The screenplay phrase “Fade In” transforms into the storybook phrase “Once Upon a Time.”

Screenplay to Novel is designed for screenwriters with a completed or nearly completed script who want to explore transforming that story into a compelling novel.

You will learn how to identify what can transfer directly, what needs to expand, what must be reinvented, and what new possibilities appear when the limits of the screen fall away.

This is not a prose-writing class disguised as a publishing seminar.

It is an adaptation framework built specifically for writers who already understand scenes, dialogue, character, and dramatic structure—and now need to learn how those instincts translate to fiction.


The Live Workshop

A live 90-minute introduction to the creative and strategic decisions involved in adapting a screenplay into a novel.

We’ll explore:

  • How to determine whether your screenplay is suited to adaptation

  • The structural differences between screenplays and novels

  • What material a novel requires that a screenplay leaves invisible

  • Choosing point of view and narrative distance

  • Translating scenes into chapters

  • Deepening character interiority and emotional architecture

  • Expanding worlds, relationships, stakes, and thematic throughlines

  • Common adaptation mistakes—and how to avoid them

  • How a novel can become part of a larger publishing and intellectual-property strategy

Participants will also receive:

  • Access to the workshop recording

  • A screenplay-to-novel adaptation checklist

  • Priority access to the four-week intensive

  • A full $149 credit toward the intensive if they continue

Workshop: $149

Joining the interest list is free and carries no obligation. You’ll receive first notice when enrollment opens.

Continue with the Four-Week Intensive

Four Weeks. One Story. Expand Your Potential.

The Screenplay to Novel Intensive is a live, workbook-driven program for writers ready to begin the actual work of adaptation.

Across four weekly sessions, you will build a practical blueprint for transforming your screenplay into a novel with stronger interiority, richer world-building, purposeful structure, and an emotional journey designed for readers rather than viewers.


Week One: Adaptation Architecture

Evaluate the screenplay, identify its novelistic potential, choose an adaptation strategy, and define what the book must accomplish that the script currently cannot.

Week Two: Character, Interior Life & Point of View

Choose the perspective through which the reader will experience the story and develop the internal journeys, contradictions, memories, desires, and emotional consequences that film often leaves beneath the surface.

Week Three: Expanding the World

Develop the settings, relationships, subplots, histories, thematic layers, and sensory experience required to make the novel feel fully inhabited rather than merely transcribed.

Week Four: From Beats to Chapters

Translate cinematic structure into a workable novel outline, evaluate pacing and chapter movement, and leave with a clear plan for completing the manuscript.

The intensive includes:

  • Four live two-hour sessions

  • A structured adaptation workbook

  • Exercises and planning tools

  • Session recordings

  • A screenplay-to-novel development blueprint

  • A community of writers undertaking the same transformation

Tuition: $599

Writers who attend the $149 workshop may apply the entire workshop price toward the intensive, leaving a balance of $450.

Advanced Offerings

Screenplay to Novel is the beginning of a larger educational path for creators who want to build stories—and careers—with greater intention.

Commercial Story Architecture & IP Strategy

Build the Story. Understand the Asset.

A strong story and a commercially intelligent story are not opposites.

This four-week program is designed for writers and creators who want to strengthen a project’s narrative architecture while thinking more strategically about audience, positioning, format, expansion potential, and long-term intellectual-property value.

The program will explore how to:

  • Identify a project’s central commercial and emotional promise

  • Strengthen structure without flattening originality

  • Define the audience most likely to embrace the work

  • Evaluate series, adaptation, and format-extension potential

  • Distinguish a complete story from an expandable story world

  • Build projects that can support a larger creative catalogue

  • Make strategic decisions without allowing the market to write the work for you

Tuition: $1,000

IP Catalogue Accelerator

Stop Thinking In Terms of One Project at a Time

The IP Catalogue Accelerator is a premium, application-based engagement for prolific creators with multiple projects, formats, or story worlds who need help seeing the larger architecture of what they have built.

One-on-one, we examine the catalogue as a connected body of intellectual property rather than a pile of unrelated manuscripts and ideas. The work may include: catalogue inventory and project evaluation, audience and positioning analysis, series and story-world architecture, cross-format and adaptation opportunities, project sequencing, brand and pen-name architecture, revenue-pathway mapping, development priorities, and a practical long-term catalogue strategy.

This is not representation, management, legal advice, or a promise of investment or acquisition.

This is a private consulting and coaching service—strategic story and intellectual-property development for creators ready to treat their body of work as the foundation of a long-term creative business they are deliberately building.

Engagements begin at $2,500.

Taught from Experience, Not Theory Alone

Jordan Trippeer

Founder of Luring Press | Author | Screenwriter | Story Strategist

Jordan works across fiction, screenwriting, adaptation, and independent publishing.

She has written produced features and short films distributed on platforms including Netflix and Amazon. Her screenwriting has been recognized by the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, Universal Emerging Writers Program, and multiple industry fellowships and development labs.

Through Luring Press, she has helped build a catalogue of twelve published works across several genres and original story worlds.

Her teaching draws from both sides of adaptation: the discipline of screenwriting and the expansive possibilities of prose. It also draws from the practical experience of developing, publishing, positioning, and learning from original work.

Jordan teaches creators how to stop waiting for permission to become who they already are—and how to turn what they have already created, and everything they intend to create next, into something they can deliberately build upon.


What These Programs Are—and Aren’t

These programs are for writers who want serious frameworks, practical tools, and clearer creative decisions.

They are not:

  • Promises of publication, representation, production, or commercial success

  • Substitutes for legal, financial, or publishing advice

  • Individual manuscript critiques unless explicitly included

  • Shortcuts around the work required to develop an excellent story

They are designed to help you do that work with greater intention, stronger architecture, and a better understanding of the possibilities already inside what you have created.

The Story Remains Yours

The objective is not to hand your work to another gatekeeper.

It is to help you see the work more clearly, understand its full potential, strengthen what needs strengthening, and develop the strategic infrastructure required to build the next stage of your creative life.