Mr. Erly’s Appointment ~ A Screenplay
Awhile back I posted a story called The Good Doctor. In that post, I mentioned I reworked that story into the opening scene of a screenplay. I did the same thing with another story for the second scene. That story was called Mr. Erly’s Appointments, I have not posted the prose version of that story, but here it is in screenplay format (or close to it – WordPress’s tools can only do so much).
If you’ve never read a screenplay, it can be a little weird. A screenplay is like an architects blueprint for a building that’s not yet built. You have to imagine all the bells and whistles of camera movement, set design, actor’s mannerisms and interpretation of the dialogue, etc. If you are up for it, here goes…
*bows* Thank you, good sir.
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I admire your nerve on this. I don’t think I’ve seen this done before, but then again there are a lot of things I haven’t seen. I hope your relo is going well my friend.
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How did the formatting look on your end? Looks good to me on the computer and the phone when I go to the website but it’s jacked up on the phone when I open it in the reader. I am sitting on a plane in St. Louis as we speak, connecting back to Ohio. Spent the day in Texas looking at potential “cribs,” as the kids say. Or used to say. Some of them. I heard.
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Looks fine. Just tested it on my iPhone here at the YMCA. Is it the convention to center the text in this fashion? Safe flight home, to your crib, with yer bitches, so to speak.
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Dialogue should be in the center of the page but with a flush left margin. I don’t know how to make WordPress do that. I barely got it to do this much. Back in Ohio, yo.
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Yeah, I’ve tried doing clever line breaks in some of my poems but couldn’t make it so. The headaches of our age can all be fixed with proper coding (yo).
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I never arrive erly for a doctors’ appointment. I mean they’re always running late so what’s the point? Is it customary to take a firearm along though?
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Yes, I conceived this story while waiting in a doctor’s office. I was on time and the wait was maddening. It is not customary to take a firearm, but perhaps it should be. Might speed things up a bit?
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Hmm, on balance, I doubt it would help!
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You’re probably right.
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