Has the book gotten a response from CF patients? On top of that, my drafts were vetted by a CF advisor that actually worked on the film, so that was an interesting process. When I first got it, the screenplay had been through numerous additions and each one had looked at, but on top of that, the screenplay writers pretty much told me 'Watch Claire's videos.' I was on YouTube constantly learning about different things like wearing the AffloVest, and just trying to learn as much as I could. The screenplay, every addition of it had been read by Claire Wineland, who was a CF advocate, and she had cystic fibrosis, and I think it was really great getting a screenplay that had been so carefully constructed in the first place.ĭid you do a lot of research into cystic fibrosis? It was a lot of adding his back story and making that come out on the page.

Going into the book, my editor had this idea to do dual POV between Stella and Will.

The biggest thing was probably that the screenplay is pretty much told from Stella's point of view, who's one of the main characters.

Were there certain parameters in adapting things you had to keep, and areas where you had more creativity? I got the screenplay and I wrote a sample first chapter and I got picked to do the rest of the book. We stayed in touch after I graduated in the winter of 2017, and she called me at the end of February and said that there's this open assignment at Simon & Schuster to take a screenplay and turn it into a book. I took 'Writing Youth Literature' 1 and 2 with Siobhan Vivian.

Lippincott will appear at Bookish in the ‘Burgh, a teen book festival part of the Pittsburgh Humanities Festival, on March 23. Five Feet Apart (the book) has now been on the New York Times bestseller list for 12 weeks, and Five Feet Apart (the movie) will be in theaters on March 15. The story centers around two hospitalized teenagers, one with cystic fibrosis, whose love is hindered by the fact that getting too close could endanger their health. After graduating in 2017, she got a call about an opportunity to adapt the screenplay for the upcoming film Five Feet Apart into a novel. Rachael Lippincott, author of Five Feet ApartiĪuthor Rachael Lippincott fell in love with writing young adult fiction while taking writing classes at the University of Pittsburgh.

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