GB wrote:

Do you know of any novel written as a ready-made film script?

No.

William

William wrote:

Has anyone reading this thread read the part about the airship in my first novel please?

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_017.pdf

William

Anybody?

The thread has stuck at 212 views, so let's move it forward please.

William

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_White_Suit

The ending of the film leaves open the possibility for a sequel!

William

The 1951 film, The man in the white suit, is currently available on BBC iplayer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b … white-suit

I have only just noticed it. It is available until 3:20 pm tomorrow afternoon as I write this.

So what with the switch to British Summer Time that is about 25 hours from now as I write this.

I saw it on television years ago, well worth watching in my opinion.

I hope towatch it again during today and tomorrow. It is listed as for 82 minute.

William

Has anyone reading this thread read the part about the airship in my first novel please?

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_017.pdf

William

Thank you for posting that link, Jack.

The part which I particularly noticed was about describing the colour of something as (the same as/like) the colour of (something named).

So, my wording, something like,

The colour of leaves in summer.

The colour of holly berries.

Another thing I noticed was saying that the colour blue was not widely known before industrialization.

There was ultramarine, as a pigment, from lapis lazuli, which was rare.

I have a recollection of something from years ago about making food in the colours of political parties.

Labour Party was easy, tomatoes. Liberal Party (as I think it then was) was easy, carrots, but there was a problem for Conservative Party. This was, I think, before blueberries became poplular, and I have a vague memory of mashed potatoes with added food colouring being suggested.

William

I am wondering: if it gets in there, does it ever get out, going out of the body in the human waste, or does it accumulate?

William

Microplastics found in human blood for first time after scientists make 'concerning finding'

https://news.sky.com/story/microplastic … g-12574356

William

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When I am using my computer I often have music from YouTube playing, so that music is playing in the background, while I am doing other things, such as posting in this forum, writing my novel, or using Affinity Designer.

When I am eating I often then watch the video as well, using full screen video. I find it quite relaxing and unobtrusive as it is not like watching a movie or a documentary and needing to pay attention.

When I start YouTube I often, but not always, search for

My Mix

and play it, so I get a continuous playing sequence.

My Mix is automatically constructed by YouTube and consists of videos that I have played before and some in similar genres that YouTube finds and includes. Many I have not known previously. What is in My Mix changes from time to time.

A nice thing about My Mix is that although one can look what is in the schedule for a number of videos ahead, one does not need to do so, and I usually do not do so.

This evening this video came up, added in by YouTube.

I'll Be All Smiles Tonight, The Price Sisters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsQr5wSuDHo

William

Hi Geoff

Alas, yet thank you for replying.

The part in Chapter 17 of my first novel that was influenced by what you had posted in the Serif lounge forum is the part about the airship.

You had posted about an airship and that was therefore a topic that I had in my mind at the time, so I wrote about an airship and that developed into something for the story. I like to think that the part inspired by the airship is amongst the best pieces of my writing.

William

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William wrote:

Did you notice the abbreviated name of a second metal? smile

Alfred wrote:

Not until you prompted me to look, whereupon I found one in the word “preFer”.

I had not noticed that.

I was meaning within the word 'ironically'.

William

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Alfred wrote:

I’ve never seen soya drink that’s only fortified with calcium. There’s always vitamin D, riboflavin (vitamin B2) and vitamin B12, too.

I know that the Grower's Harvest version used to list vitamin D in the ingredients but now it lists vitamin D2.

I do not know if the product changed its forumulation and therefore its labelling or just the labelling.

D2 is from plants, D3 can be somewhat unknown as to whether its source is vegan, unless stated specifically.

If it just says D it is unknown which it is.

Alfred wrote:

Organic soya drink seems to lack all of the above.

I think it is not regarded as lacking but that if they were included it would not be organic.

William

Thank you.

William

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Ah.

Yet the fortified versions of unsweetened soya drink have added calcium.

The ones I have also have vitamin B12 and vitamin D2 as well.

William

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Actually I missed "Multi " from in front of "vitamin" rather than miss off an "s".

Did you notice the abbreviated name of a second metal? smile

William

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Can one reasonably regard unsweetened soya drink as liquid tofu?

Please discuss.

William

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"I prefer a vitamin and minerals tablet daily", he said ironically.

William

Has Geoff or anyone else folowed the links in my previous post and had a read please?

Either the ending of the first novel or the start of the first novel, or maybe dipped-in to a chapter inthe middle?

If dipping-in, I like to think that Chapter 34 is one of the best chapters in the novel.

By the way, the way that the forum has displayed the sequence of three links can give the impression that I have put the same link twice by mistake, yet that is not the case, there are three documents.

By the way Geoff, one chapter of the first novel includes something inspired by a post that you made in the Serif lounge forum.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_017.pdf

Here is an author note written before Chapter 17 was written.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_013.pdf

I am glad that I included some author notes and dated them. The novel was written from June 2016 to February 2019, so the author note mentioned was quite early in the writing process.

Please know that each chapter of the novel has the date of its publication built-in to its document properties, which can be accessed from Adobe Reader.

William

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"So you are claiming you are late because you had to go back because you had forgotten to bring your vitamin tablet?" she asked unbelieveingly.

William

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Albert Ross wrote:
William wrote:

It is a pity that the BBC calls it a "dumbphone".

Double standards.

William

What would you call it then William?

A basic mobile telephone.

William

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Human looking robot 'wakes up' in incredible footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj-fFgff1fU

William

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I remember an episode of The West Wing where CJ was being coached on how to answer questions and she had been fully trained, then the trainer asked "Do you know what time it is?" and she said some answer that included the time, possibly pointing out with some annoyance that there is a clock on the wall.

The trainer then asked her the question again.

"Do you know what time it is?"

"Yes", she answered laconically..

The episode ended.

Can you amuse us by informing us of the questions and the nonsensical answers please? smile

William

I wondered if there are pangrams in languages other than English. Good for testing fonts.

https://german.stackexchange.com/questi … n-pangrams

William

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I only got 3.

William

Hello Geoff,

Thank you for your comments.

William wrote:

I try to write so as that if a movie is made of the novel then the words to speak are ready to use.

GB wrote:

In my view that is a serious problem. You are writing a novel, not a play. You need more background information, setting the scene, describing the surroundings etc. There is a lot going on that the characters would not mention, but which would inform and interest the reader.

Thank you for the comment.

I can try to do both, as they are not mutually exclusive. The scene setting information could then be staging directions for the movie.

You might like to have a look at the final two chapters of the first novel. There are a couple of twists that you might find interesting, though if anyone wants to read the first novel in full then probably best not to read those two chapters before reading the novel from the start. I like to think that my writing gradually improved as I proceeded, but that may not be justified, I don't know.

Direct links to the final chapters of the first novel.

SPOILER ALERT Reading these two chapters before reading the novel is not a good idea if you want to read the whole novel.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_080.pdf

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_081.pdf

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_081.pdf

Readers who would like to read the first novel in full, including optionally the author notes, can find the PDF documents linked from the following web page.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/novel_plus.htm

William