Five Feet Apart

by Rachael Lippincott

“We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. I never understood the importance of touch, his touch . . . until I couldn’t have it.”

Totally what Mikki said here. It worked so perfectly for the movie to start and end with this monologue, but it wouldn’t have clicked for the book. That’s really what was at the heart of this screenplay-to-book process: Figuring out how to best transfer the story from one medium to another, while remaining faithful to what is on the page. That took many shapes, whether it’s adding descriptions that a movie goer would visually and naturally get, or changing the opening scene to the close up of Abby’s drawing, or writing from a dual-POV.