adaptation

# Adaptation ## Overview Turn a story project into another form: an audiobook narration script, a screenplay in Fountain, a picture-book pagination plan, a comics script, an interactive-fiction branch map, or an edition in another language. The story project stays the source of truth. Adaptation files live in `adaptations/` inside the project, except translations, which become their own project folder with the same ids. ## Prerequisites A story project with `story.md` in the root and chapters drafted far enough to adapt. Read `story.md` (`title`, `form`, `language`, `status`), the chapter and scene records, and the character, location, and glossary files the adaptation touches. Adapting a draft that is still changing means redoing the adaptation; say so if `status` is not `revising` or `complete`. ## When to Use - Producing an audiobook: narration script, runtime estimate, pronunciation guide, narrator and production checklist - Adapting the story to a screenplay, comics script, or interactive fiction - Planning or drafting a picture book (`form: picture-book`) - Translating the book, or preparing a glossary and style sheet for a translator - NOT for publishing metadata, print, ebook, launch, or rights deals (use `publishing`); audio and film rights one-sheets live there - NOT for query letters or agent submission (use `submission`) - NOT for new prose in the source book (use `chapter-writing`) - Nonfiction and poetry are outside the story project model. The CLI ...