The film rights have been optioned which means Lionsgate has the option to turn it into a film. Is there going to be a Night Circus movie?.

I am eternally grateful to Chris Baty for coming up with such an outlandish idea, he has forever changed the way I feel about the month of November and also he has very good taste in wine. Before NaNo I was the sort of person who would write a page and hate it so I’d stop, when really you need to keep going and write more pages and NaNo is a wonderful way to learn that. I think NaNoWriMo is a brilliant idea and gives you two magical things: company and a deadline. (An example: that entire 100k worth of original circus stuff? Celia isn’t in it. It went through a great many changes between that double NaNo draft and the finished version. I tried for the first time in 2003 & failed but succeeded in 2004 and in 2005 I started a project that I got bored with and sent the characters to the circus and that circus was immediately much more interesting than anything else so I spent the next two years of NaNo writing exploring that imaginary circus. The longer version of this answer has been chronicled several times (including this blog post about how I got an agent) but the short version is that NaNoWriMo is an online based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

Did THE NIGHT CIRCUS really start as a National Novel Writing Month ( NaNoWriMo) project?.

I mostly write in Scrivener, or in fountain pen on unlined paper. I do not have an MFA or any other formal writing training.

( THE NIGHT CIRCUS was sold when I was 32.) I do not write every day, I tend to be a binge writer. After college I thought about writing for good long while before I started actually putting pen to paper in my mid-twenties. I studied playwriting in college but never finished any plays. I wrote little random things when I was in junior high and high school but never really thought of myself as a writer. I am also on Twitter though I take frequent hiatuses. You can find me on Instagram and, more importantly, Vesper on Instagram. My third novel is currently word soup.For foreign rights information please contact InkWell. My second novel, THE STARLESS SEA, was published in the US, UK & Canada on November 5th, 2019.When (if) there is ever news I can share I will share it.

No, I do not know when (or if) the movie is coming out or if you can be in it.

Film rights to THE NIGHT CIRCUS have already been optioned by Lionsgate.

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