“You never heard me talk of Victor Trevor?” he asked. “He was the only friend I made during the two years I was at college. Trevor was the only man I knew … and it was a bond of union when I found that he was as friendless as I.”
— The Adventure of the Gloria Scott
Colours for the line art I posted a little while ago. It was a prompt fill for eeeelieh, who I was paired with for the exchangelock challenge. She requested a teen!lock AU with Sherlock Holmes and Victor Trevor.
Emotion. Your script is so focused on conveying information it forgets to check in with how its characters are relating to each other.
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Your plan for the second act. What’s your hook? You have your situational setup and then…that’s it, Helen, let’s just talk about it until the end.
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Proofreading. I don’t bother correcting spelling and grammar in notes. The errors are too rampant and I just hold them against you without telling you.
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Decent dialogue. Your lines aren’t indicative of character, they’re two robots aggressively pretending they aren’t telling each other what’s up with the plot.
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Pacing. You never rewrote to take out the scenes in which you were still feeling your way through the story.
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A protagonist with their heart and soul on the line. You didn’t clearly define why this moment in time is a permanent game-changer for your protag.
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Powerful forces. Your protagonist doesn’t face obstacles that seem too formidable to overcome.
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A rock solid ending. The point at which we ascend on the wings of the protag.
Or…cry our eyes out because of their losses. There has to be an ending.
He won’t talk about her, obviously. And my plans for New Years have had to be cancelled of course. So it’s going to be a glass of scotch and a silent flatmate.
Robert Downey Jr. accepts the MTV Generation Award from his fellow Avengers cast members during the 2015 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, California April 12, 2015. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
Change the background colour of the pages to a mint green shade.
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It is said that green is a calming colour, however, the main reason why I like this, is because I can write for a much longer period of time now, as a white background I used before made my eyes dry and exhausted after just a few hours of working.
It is basically much more soft and careful to the eyes. I can’t precisely explain why that is. I think it’s that by making a pinch softer contrast of the text and the background, your eyes does not get exposed to as much light.
Just make sure to not make the background too dark, or else your eyes will get exhausted do to over-fixating the lack of contrast between text and background.
And maybe you find a nice pastel/light background shade that fits you; give it a try.
Different things work out and fits for different people. And I just felt like sharing this.
Here’s the shade numbers I used to get my preferred colour:
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Thanks for reading.
DUDE
You just solved a very real problem for me! Thanks!
For those who might not know where to find this: It’s in the Page Layout tab.
I had no idea this was possible before today!
Google docs will let you do this too. File, page setup.
Yes! I’ve been doing this for years. Dove grays and soft blues work for me, too, as well as green, but I need softer, muted greens, like this lovely green above mixed with some pale gray. Whatever works for each person, but try this if you have MS Word. I was bummed that I couldn’t figure how to do this on Open Office.
I use celtx and I use a black background with white text. It works so much better than the standard.
Mark Strong wins Best Actor Olivier Award [x] (bonus: Mark congratulating Mark with a hand on his shoulder at the beginning of the first gif. Also, Ian Hallard and Amanda Abbington!)
