Alenanno

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I'm a student majoring in Languages (branch: Linguistics), currently working as a freelance translator. I've recently discovered Dropbox and I'm going to use it for my needs! :)

I love
Languages, Movies (Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Tarantino, etc.), Music, 3D Graphics, books and so on.

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Languages List ^{Languages with * = learning on my own}

Mother Tongue: Italian, Sardinian;
Fluent: English, Spanish;
Less Fluent: French, German, Russian;
Learning: Japanese*, Chinese*, Swedish*, Greek*, Finnish*;
Willing to learn: Welsh, Korean, Dutch, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi [to be continued]

Me gusta el Español.
J'aime le Français.
Deutsch gefällt mir.
Мне нравится Русский язык.
私は日本語が好きです。
我爱中文。
Jag älskar Svenska.

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Feb 7	comment	Do script readers start at the beginning? @SF. You're talking about established directors/screenwriters, though. You're guaranteed it works. In case of new scripts you need to be able to have a good beginning. I repeat, I'm not one of those, but considering the amount of things they might read, it's not absurd to think they don't give too much chance to a single script (unless the beginning is good).
Feb 7	comment	Do script readers start at the beginning? @SF. Exactly, so if they see a boring beginning they're more likely to trash the whole script, no? I'm not sure I get your point. :)
Feb 7	comment	Do script readers start at the beginning? @SF. Yes, but there are two things to consider: if you see the same boring beginning on TV, you're going to change channel. In the cinema, you'd be wasting money so you stay. And secondly, watching a movie and reading a script are different things, especially for someone who reads many. I don't know their job, well... But hey, perhaps they occasionally check the middle, who knows. :P
Feb 6	awarded	Commentator
Feb 6	comment	Killing off a character: deciding if, when and how Great, thanks. :)
Feb 6	comment	Killing off a character: deciding if, when and how Note that those options were not invented by me. It's what I found on the internet to be the most common ones being used.
Feb 6	comment	Killing off a character: deciding if, when and how @LaurenIpsum Ahah no, I don't intend killing main characters. I wanted to make the question less attached to my work but since you mentioned it: I'm feeling bad even thinking about killing one. :)
Feb 6	asked	Killing off a character: deciding if, when and how
Feb 2	revised	It is a sign of bad writing to have many scenes that are disconnected with the main plot? changed image from vertical to horizontal to save space
Feb 2	suggested	suggested edit on It is a sign of bad writing to have many scenes that are disconnected with the main plot?
Oct 15	awarded	Editor
Oct 13	comment	Deciding the setting: real or invented? @Mussri Certainly not the books? Maybe you mean the movies (they are not 100% faithful to the books).
Oct 13	comment	Deciding the setting: real or invented? @Mussri Think about Murder, She wrote with Angela Lansbury/Jessica Fletcher or Hercule Poirot from Agatha Christie's books, or Sherlock Holmes. :)
Oct 12	comment	How long is a single-title romance novel supposed to be? +1 for "Your novel should be as long as it needs to be." I think that's exactly the point.
Oct 11	comment	Deciding the setting: real or invented? Nice theory, and now that you explain it, it's kind of familiar as a way of thinking, and I think I agree.
Oct 11	comment	Deciding the setting: real or invented? Thank you Mussri, this is a really well-thought answer, but I'd like to point out a couple of things: I'm writing crime fiction so I'll be sticking to the real world, no weird magic or effects. Not because I don't like it, and I thought of setting it in some parallel world, but I wanted to write crime fiction, like Murder, She Wrote, or Poirot, or you know what I mean by now. :D So "the world" thing is out of my thoughts now. My concern was the place. Maybe I could choose a real city and just put fictional buildings. I don't know yet...
Oct 11	comment	Deciding the setting: real or invented? John, I definitely liked what you said here: "You want to set atmosphere in your book, not a geographical map", but I need a clarification over something else. What did you mean by "Then pick the more frightening"? Didn't understand it.
Oct 10	awarded	Custodian
Oct 10	reviewed	Edit suggested edit on Deciding the setting: real or invented?
Oct 10	revised	Deciding the setting: real or invented? Added tags for clarity