: Re: How to tell if my story is finished, or needs more? Slightly obtuse title, let me elaborate. I'm writing my first screenplay, and I'm trying to keep it simple while making it simultaneously

If you didn't create an outline — that is, if you didn't know beforehand how it was going to end — then you're suffering from impeded arborvision (you can't see the forest for the trees).

1) Put it in a drawer and don't read it for a month. Come back with fresher eyes. You'd be amazed what you catch.

2) Hand it off to someone else and ask your reader if the story is finished. You need other perspectives.

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: I think if you indicated somewhere (preface, end notes, first footnote) that the translations are all yours, you could either write the Arabic and then your translation, or write it in English

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: Cheat. Drop some letters/syllables. It's true, in po'try, it cannae be changed (Feels like "can" needs another unstressed after it, doesn't it?)

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