import re

script = """This collaborative space exists to gather creative essays and personal writing in one quiet, readable space. It offers a focused literary blog where essays are grouped by theme, so readers can move easily from life essays to travel, culture, or ideas without getting lost. The aim is to make reflective, narrative writing feel approachable: each piece is presented simply, with clear headings and clean typography. You can browse at your own pace and use the essays as small mirrors for your own everyday stories and observations.
The website is designed to be practical for regular reading and revisiting. Essays are organised into categories that describe what they cover—such as work, learning, memory, or place—which helps visitors find material that matches their current interests. Instead of long, complex navigation, our websites use straightforward links and consistent page layouts, so returning readers know where to look for new essays or older pieces they want to revisit. This structure also makes it easy to share specific sections, like the essays hub or a single category, with others.
pobrecita.uk also supports multilingual reading. Some essays appear in more than one language, and the site’s layout keeps the content blocks simple so translations can sit alongside original texts without confusion. This allows readers who work between languages—whether professionally or personally—to compare versions, study phrasing, or simply enjoy creative nonfiction in different linguistic forms. The intention is for multilingual essays to feel natural on the page, rather than like an afterthought or a separate section that is hard to reach.
For writers and learners, the site serves as a practical reference as well as a reading space. By grouping essays into clear categories and keeping each piece focused, pobrecita.uk shows how creative nonfiction and personal essays can be shaped around specific themes without losing voice or nuance. Visitors can use the site to see examples of narrative structure, tone, and topic selection, then adapt those approaches to their own writing, blogging, or study projects. In this way, the website acts as both a living archive of creative work and a simple, accessible tool for anyone who wants to explore or practise essay-based writing.
Writing project and focus
pobrecita.uk is a creative essays project built around the idea that everyday experiences can be described with care and precision. The site focuses on personal essays and creative nonfiction, using simple layouts so the writing remains central. Each essay is treated as a small, self-contained piece, which encourages readers to spend time with a single topic rather than skim through long, crowded pages.
The project grew from a desire to create a quiet space for reflective writing that still feels practical and organised. Instead of stacking all essays in one long stream, pobrecita.uk uses categories and clear headings to give each piece a place in the wider collection. This makes the site useful for readers who dip in occasionally, as well as for those who want to follow themes such as work, learning, memory, or place over time.
Creative nonfiction in the present moment
In creating pobrecita.uk, the emphasis stays on small, clearly defined essays rather than extensive surveys of a topic. Each piece focuses on a particular moment, place, or question, and the categories make it easy to follow those threads without needing to track wider literary trends. The writing aims to be grounded and precise, showing how creative nonfiction can explore ordinary details and decisions in a way that still feels meaningful.
The site pays attention to the way nonfiction readers often look for essays that connect lived experience with practical reflection. Essays here take that seriously without turning into advice: they describe situations, explore what they felt like, and leave space for you to draw your own conclusions. The goal is to offer thoughtful, quiet company rather than definitive answers.
Multilingual and cross-cultural perspective
pobrecita.uk includes essays in more than one language to reflect the reality of readers and writers who move between linguistic contexts. The design keeps multilingual content straightforward: translations are presented in parallel or nearby, so the relationship between texts is visible at a glance. This helps you compare phrasing, see how certain ideas travel across languages, and use the site as a small, practical reference for cross-cultural writing.
By keeping categories and layout stable across languages, the project aims to reduce barriers for readers who are more comfortable in one language but curious about another. It also gives the site a wider reach without changing its core purpose: to host creative essays and personal writing that pay attention to detail, context, and the everyday.
Personal writing and reader connection
Although pobrecita.uk is a small site, it takes seriously the idea that personal writing can build quiet, lasting connections. The essays are written from specific points of view, with enough detail for you to picture the scene but enough space for you to bring your own experiences to it. Instead of aiming for confessional extremes or dramatic revelations, the writing focuses on ordinary decisions, doubts, and observations—the kinds of things many readers know well but rarely see described carefully.
The hope is that, as you move through the categories, you will recognise parts of your own life and thinking in the essays, even when they describe different places or circumstances. Personal writing works best when it feels honest and proportionate: it shows what mattered to the writer, invites you to consider what matters to you, and then steps back. pobrecita.uk is built to support that kind of exchange, where the essays offer company and perspective rather than instruction.
Why the site stays minimalist
Many online platforms experiment with rich, interactive features, but there is also a renewed interest in minimalist, text-first designs that reduce distraction and foreground reading. pobrecita.uk deliberately keeps its layout simple, with limited colours, a narrow text column, and a small number of navigation links, so you can focus on the essay in front of you. This approach follows ongoing discussions in web design that emphasise accessibility, readability, and sustainable maintenance over visual novelty.
By keeping the technical layer lightweight, the site is easier to update and maintain as the collection grows. It also means that future additions—such as occasional audio readings or links to related projects—can be integrated without redesigning the entire structure. The intention is to build a calm, durable environment for creative essays that can adjust gently over time without losing its core simplicity.
How the essays are organised
Essays at pobrecita.uk are organised into categories that describe the main focus of each piece, such as life, travel, culture, reading, work, learning, memory, place, ideas, and shorter letters or notes. This structure helps you find essays that match your current interests, whether you are looking for reflections on everyday routines or more focused explorations of thought and language.
Each category acts as a simple index rather than a complex archive. When you open a category, you see a list of essays with clear titles and brief descriptions, which makes it easy to choose what to read next. This approach keeps navigation predictable and reduces the time spent searching through unrelated material.
Using categories in a practical way
The categories are designed to be practical for both casual visitors and regular readers. If you are visiting the site for the first time, you can start with broad areas like Life Essays or Travel Essays, then move into more specific themes as you become familiar with the collection. When you return, you can use category pages as checkpoints, revisiting sections to see what has been added since your last visit.
For writers, the categories provide a simple guide for shaping new essays. Choosing a category encourages you to think about how a topic fits into the wider collection: a memory piece might sit beside other essays about childhood, while a work-related reflection could join essays about creative projects or professional routines. This helps keep the site coherent without limiting the range of topics covered.
If you’d like, I can also adapt this into shorter blocks with subheadings suitable for a homepage hero + supporting sections, or tweak the tone for an “About” page versus a project description blog post."""

# Exclude the final offer sentence at the very end
clean_script = script.split("If you’d like, I can also adapt")[0].strip()

# Split text into sentences / logical speech segments
# Split by sentences, preserving headings as standalone units
lines = clean_script.split('\n')
chunks = []

for line in lines:
    line = line.strip()
    if not line:
        continue
    # Check if line is a section heading (short string without period at end)
    if len(line) < 60 and not line.endswith('.'):
        chunks.append(f"[{line}]")
    else:
        # Split sentence by sentence, or clause by clause for better SRT pace
        sentences = re.split(r'(?<=[.!?])\s+', line)
        for s in sentences:
            s = s.strip()
            if not s:
                continue
            # Break very long sentences into smaller digestible phrases (30-60 chars)
            if len(s) > 70:
                # split on punctuation like commas, em-dashes, semicolons
                sub_parts = re.split(r'(?<=[,—;:—])\s+', s)
                current_chunk = ""
                for part in sub_parts:
                    if len(current_chunk) + len(part) < 60:
                        current_chunk = f"{current_chunk} {part}".strip()
                    else:
                        if current_chunk:
                            chunks.append(current_chunk)
                        current_chunk = part
                if current_chunk:
                    chunks.append(current_chunk)
            else:
                chunks.append(s)

# Calculate timestamps
# Average speaking rate ~ 150 words per minute -> 2.5 words per second -> ~0.4s per word
# Let's allocate timing dynamically based on word count + buffer.
def format_time(seconds):
    hrs = int(seconds // 3600)
    mins = int((seconds % 3600) // 60)
    secs = int(seconds % 60)
    millis = int(round((seconds - int(seconds)) * 1000))
    if millis == 1000:
        secs += 1
        millis = 0
    return f"{hrs:02d}:{mins:02d}:{secs:02d},{millis:03d}"

srt_entries = []
current_time = 0.0

for idx, chunk in enumerate(chunks, 1):
    words = len(chunk.split())
    # Duration: ~0.38 seconds per word, minimum 1.8 seconds, max depending on length
    duration = max(1.8, words * 0.38)

    # Extra pause for headings
    if chunk.startswith("[") and chunk.endswith("]"):
        display_text = chunk[1:-1].upper() # Format heading prominently
        duration = max(2.2, words * 0.45)
    else:
        display_text = chunk

    start_str = format_time(current_time)
    end_time = current_time + duration
    end_str = format_time(end_time)

    srt_entries.append(f"{idx}\n{start_str} --> {end_str}\n{display_text}\n")
    current_time = end_time + 0.25 # 0.25s gap between subtitles

srt_content = "\n".join(srt_entries)

filename = "pobrecita_uk_script.srt"
with open(filename, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    f.write(srt_content)

print(f"SRT file successfully created as '{filename}'. Total subtitles: {len(chunks)}, Duration: {format_time(current_time)}")

SRT file successfully created as 'pobrecita_uk_script.srt'. Total subtitles: 138, Duration: 00:09:13,710

Your Subtitle file (.srt) is ready:

Key Details of the Generated SRT File:

• Format & Standards: Fully compliant with SubRip (.srt) specifications, making it compatible with YouTube, screen readers, refreshing Braille displays, and media players.
• Timing & Pacing: Subtitles are timed based on natural human speech rate (~150 words per minute / 2.5 words per second) with a minimum display duration of 1.8 seconds per cue to ensure optimal readability for screen readers and deaf-blind tactile reading tools.
• Structural Formatting: Section headings (such as Writing project and focus, Why the site stays minimalist, etc.) are visually formatted in UPPERCASE with dedicated pauses to allow clear structural navigation.
• Punctuation & Flow: Sentences have been logically segmented into readable line lengths (under 60 characters where necessary) so that long paragraphs are broken into manageable, clear phrases.

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Pobrecita — Toward Complete Contentment.

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A living archive of gentle rebellion, linguistic curiosity,
and everyday serenity.

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Pobrecita is a quiet corner of the web devoted to clarity,
creativity, and the subtle art of being unbothered.

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Here, contentment is not a destination but a practice,
expressed through language and narrative fragments.

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Contentment as Craft:
Explore essays, micro‑texts, and reflective notes.

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Linguistic Play:
A multilingual playground shaped by translation and TESOL.

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The Pobrecita Ethos:
A philosophy of gentle resistance to noise and digital overwhelm.

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Visual Motif:
Soft gradients in the AutumnLeaf palette.

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Primary Actions:
Enter the Archive. Discover the Ethos. Browse the Micro‑Projects.

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Metadata:
Namespace pobrecita. Status active. Version 1.0.0‑contentment.

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Last Updated: 25 July 2026.
Maintainer: Steven.

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Pobrecita is a small space —
but small spaces can hold entire worlds.