For the January-February Fan Fiction Challenge, we asked you to take a scene from New Moon and adapt it into a screenplay. Our winners really took the challenge to heart, finding creative ways to adapt the book so that it plays out well on screen.

1. New Moon Screenplay Scene: “Halloween” by Eryn Edelen
     This scene wasn’t actually in New Moon, but it’s addition as a scene for the movie version is a brilliant move on this author’s part. It shows us what Bella was going through during those pageless months skipped over in the book. And while Stephenie Meyer’s technique in the book was genius, it might not translate well to the screen. This author has found a way to show us (rather than tell us) the difficulties Bella is experiencing in this first few months after Edward’s disappearance.

2. New Moon Screenplay Scene: “Bella Meets Laurent” by Addy Rocchio
     This author really took to heart the idea that you can change scenes from the book, but still stay true to the original story. She found some pretty ingenius ways to speed up the story-telling process (always a necessity when adapting books to film) without sacrificing the integrity of these crucial plot points. I’d love to see something just like this in the real movie version of New Moon.

3. New Moon Screenplay: “4 Scenes” by Christie
     This author submitted four individual scenes, and we thought they were all so great, we’ve decided to share them all with you! While her scenes stay fairly true to the original book, her script shows how she would visually represent these scenes in a movie. Personally, I’m particularly fond of her adaptation of the Port Angeles scene.

Honorable Mentions: “Cliff Diving Boys” by best with breadsticks … and … “Opening Through Break-Up Scenes” by Kelley Hancock
     Both of these entries are worth sharing. “Cliff Diving Boys” is a small, but crucial scene, which sets the stage for the conflict between Bella and Jacob when he becomes a werewolf, and for Bella’s own cliff-diving experience later in the story. And Kelley Hancock’s thorough adapatation of the first few scenes is impressive. Though some of  the scenes are not perfect (some are too fast; some are too slow) she definitely took on the challenge of adapting the book into a movie form. Her opening scene, in particular, is my favorite.

We’d also like to give a big SHOUT-OUT to Ms. Colandera’s After-School Kids … they sent us two entries for the challenge, and while they did not win, we were excited to see a teacher using Twilight to encourage her kids to write! We hope you guys keep it up!!

Winners get this cool graphic for posting their entries on the Twilight Archives or any other fan fiction site: