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Q: Need evaluation and technical assistance

I'm currently working on a draft of a story i wrote and need some feedback. Here is a part of a paragraph i'm not quite comfortable with. Specifically i feel the connection between the first and second sentence is weak, and that the first sentence doesn't sound right grammatically (English is not...

fiction technique editing formatting grammar

3:50 AM

Hello @Mr.ShinyandNew安宇.

6 hours later…

9:20 AM

@KitZ.Fox Ah, I missed talking to you last night, I was sleeping, maybe we'll talk later, I don't know.

9:42 AM

Hello @matt.

Matt E. Эллен

Hi

@MattE.Эллен I am not too good. Some new things happened the past two weeks, now I need to deal with them. The thing about anxiety is that it spreads easily. But the meds help to calm me down a bit.

Matt E. Эллен

I'm glad the meds are helping

Is there a place you can imagine where everything is calm?

@MattE.Эллен Maybe in my next life. I am going to take a nap, see you.

Matt E. Эллен

CU

10:05 AM

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Q: How to balance for readers who are not technologically literate

My story features two software developers who discuss computer-based things in the first chapter. It's not a significant part of the story, but it helps to establish who the characters are and what they know. Being a software developer as my day job, I know how they should talk about things and ...

3 hours later…

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

12:57 PM

@JasperLoy Hi Jasper, I guess I missed you.

user116848

1:56 PM

Hi all

user116848

I wrote my weekly short story:

user116848

A story that tries to make no sense

user116848

See you all

user116848

2:12 PM

@KitZ.Fox @MattE.Эллен Hi! I wrote my yesterday's short story above.

4:03 PM

I'm back.

And beautiful.

I am back and sick.

Why you gotta make me sad D:

That sucks, what kind of sick?

The usual sick of the world being horrible to everyone sick?

Don't worry, I have that too.

No, my mental illness.

I almost said I understand.

But I know I never will.

That best I can say is good luck.

And don't try too hard.

You've got this.

You really do.

user116848

hi

4:15 PM

You are a good boy @DeltaEscher.

I'm not a good boy.

I'm a mediocre one.

But I guess that's better than a crappy one.

4:37 PM

@DeltaEscher You will be a great man one day, while I will end up as a beggar on the streets.

Replace 'beggar' with 'mathematician' and 'on the streets' with 'in a professional lab' and you're set.

You can make what you want come true.

user116848

@JasperLoy Oh, don't say that. You are making me sad :(

So why want to be a beggar?

I may not have the strength to get well.

Strength is for the truly weak.

You have intelligence.

It's all you need.

4:42 PM

You know, everytime I try to do something to get better, something unexpected happens and makes some things worse, it is very painful @delta, just very painful. No words can describe this pain. It's like a lifelong curse.

Life is the curse.

We all have a burden, maybe of different shapes and sizes.

Yours is larger than mine, but a similar shape.

Just do all you can, and deal with what life gives you.

Or doesn't give you.

I have to go to lunch now, so I must leave.

I will be back though.

user116848

5:11 PM

I like this quote:

user116848

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5:21 PM

Made it.

@DeltaEscher I find I often get misunderstood by people with the things I say.

I do too.

Like, I just got misunderstood in the math room.

How

5:38 PM

@DeltaEscher Never mind. I am here today but Kit is not.

We had fun yesterday.

I chose the writing topic :P

@DeltaEscher I actually cannot stand living in my country anymore, which I shall refer to as Antarctica.

You already told me your country.

Yes, henceforth called Antarctica, OK?

Alrighty.

Although Antarctica is more of a continent

5:41 PM

I don't have much in life to look forward to. Like I told Kit, I think I only have 1 per cent chance of getting well.

And after that, I only have 1 per cent chance of getting into grad school.

Better than none.

Sorry, I just feel very depressed now.

I cannot start life all over again.

And you won't.

Your life never ended.

You're where you are because it was intended as such.

Just wait, you'll see.

Very often, I wish I don't wake up when I go to sleep.

Got to go, sorry.

6:17 PM

I am going to sleep, good night.

6 hours later…

11:52 PM

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Q: What are some common pitfalls when adapting a novel (thematic autobiographic in this case) to a screenplay?

I am working on an adaptation of a book into movie format, and I would like to know what experience and guidelines exist for this, so I can improve my way of doing this where possible.

novel book screenwriting conventions

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