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When life keeps imitating my fiction

When life keeps imitating my fiction

Seriously, Life, please stop doing this

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Richard Paolinelli
Jan 19, 2025
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Back in 1998 I wrote a screenplay titled, Inauguration Day, and for a brief time it was actually being considered to be green-lighted. Long story short, it didn’t happen.

But that’s not the reason why I bring it up here.

Eventually, I decided to adapt the screenplay to a novel back in 2013. Only to realize I really needed to write the main character’s bac…

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