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Posted by: Don, July 12th, 2017, 7:13pm
I've Lived 400,000 Times by Farrah Ventenilla Hamada - Short, Comedy - Freddie, the protagonist recounts some of his past lives and gets to resolve his mental illness by chance by getting an amnesia. 15 pages - pdf, format

Writer interested in feedback on this work

Posted by: eldave1, July 12th, 2017, 8:15pm; Reply: 1
A lot of formatting issues out of the shoot including the Title Page.

No need ti number scene headings

You simply can't do stuff like this:


Quoted Text
(Note: Actions take place as the narrator describes the
scenes that are going to happen.)


You have to describe the actual actions
Posted by: Cameron (Guest), July 14th, 2017, 8:11am; Reply: 2
Yep, what Dave said re formatting, really all over the place. Have a little look around the site and try to copy the formatting methods from others, and integrate them into the work.

As a quick aside, you nearly went a little bit Scottish there Dave:

Quoted from eldave1
No need ti number scene headings

However, we prefer it to be "tae", which can add vague amounts of humour or confusion to a sentence. It can also be used in a threatening manner too (Billy Connolly's quite good at it), as in "get tae f..." and so on.

Anyway, I digress, keep at it Ventenilla, best of luck,

Cam
Posted by: eldave1, July 14th, 2017, 4:41pm; Reply: 3

Quoted from Cameron
Yep, what Dave said re formatting, really all over the place. Have a little look around the site and try to copy the formatting methods from others, and integrate them into the work.

As a quick aside, you nearly went a little bit Scottish there Dave:

However, we prefer it to be "tae", which can add vague amounts of humour or confusion to a sentence. It can also be used in a threatening manner too (Billy Connolly's quite good at it), as in "get tae f..." and so on.

Anyway, I digress, keep at it Ventenilla, best of luck,

Cam


Wow - I must have some Scottish DNA lurking around somewhere
Posted by: Cameron (Guest), July 14th, 2017, 4:52pm; Reply: 4

Quoted from eldave1
Wow - I must have some Scottish DNA lurking around somewhere


Yep, historically we did get about the world a fair bit so there's always a chance! Only one hitch I can see, your name would have to to be less eldave and more McDave.
Posted by: eldave1, July 14th, 2017, 4:55pm; Reply: 5
It's actually Lambertson - so maybe
Posted by: Cameron (Guest), July 14th, 2017, 4:59pm; Reply: 6
Er yep, that'll about bloody well do it, congratulations on the heritage!!
Posted by: Farrah, July 18th, 2017, 1:58am; Reply: 7
thanks for all the comments, guys.
Posted by: eldave1, July 18th, 2017, 10:11am; Reply: 8

Quoted from Farrah
thanks for all the comments, guys.


No problem - best of luck
Posted by: Kirsten, July 18th, 2017, 11:57am; Reply: 9
Hi Farrah,

This was difficult to get through because of the formatting etc, but I really liked the premise and the depth to it. I could see you put a lot of thought into this and that shows.
Posted by: Farrah, July 19th, 2017, 9:02am; Reply: 10
hi there kirsten,

could you be more specific with regards to formatting?
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