Meeting Your Author (M4FF) (Author X Book Character) (Friends to More) (Awkward Speaker)
You’re just about the reach the moment you’ve been waiting for. It’s time to confess to your crush, but then you pause? Why are you pausing? You feel your writer walking away. He can’t walk away now, it’s time! The last chapter where you are supposed to get your happily ever after, but he’s just not feeling it. Suddenly, something pulls you. Pulling you out of your pages.
Approx 1400 words.
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[...] is sfx
Bold is tone
Italics is internal dialogue
[Typing then stopping]
“Ok, final chapter, let’s go! Let’s go. Ahhh, come on! Why haven’t I come up with an ending?”
(Pause)
“The main character goes to confront her love interest and… Damn it!”
(Pause)
“Forget it. I’m going to take a walk and clear my head.”
[Walking down the sidewalk]
“Maybe I’ll stop in this cafe, grab coffee.”
[Little bell tinkles as he opens the door. Cafe sounds]
Nice, this place is pretty quiet.
(Pause)
“Hi, can I just get a black coffee please?”
(Pause)
“Thanks.”
(Pause)
“Ok, great. I’m just going to sit by the window over there.”
(Pause)
This is nice. I think I needed to get away from my laptop for a bit. I haven’t stopped writing all weekend. This place is very cool too. I’ve never been here before.
(Pause)
“Wait, is that? No way. She’s crossing the street and…”
[Bell tinkles again]
Shit. Not now. I need to clear my head, not get it in the clouds thinking about her.”
She dyed her hair, I like it.
(Pause)
“Hmm? Oh hey! Nice seeing you again. I like what you did with your hair.”
(Pause)
“What do you mean it’s just the way I… wrote… you?”
(Pause)
That’s why she looks so familiar like that.
(Pause)
*“*What is happening?”
(Pause)
“What do you mean you followed me?”
(Pause)
“You wanted to make sure I what?!”
(Pause)
“Gave your story a happy ending?”
(Pause)
“Are you trying to? Do you expect me to believe that you’re my… my main character from my book?”
(Pause)
“You really are insane… or maybe I am. Either one really makes sense at this point. You could be a crazy woman who followed me, who looks exactly like the woman from the bookshop I frequent or I have spent way too much time writing this weekend and my brain finally snapped from lack of sleep, food, water, basically everything. You could easily be a hallucination brought on by dehydration, starvation, and stress.”
(Pause)
She even has the same eye color as my character.
(Pause)
“No, I’m fine, I am totally fine. You just really do look like her.”
(Pause)
“You’re not her.”
(Pause)
“No, you’re not. She has, ok yes the same hair and eyes, the same smile, the same everything, but it's impossible. No, it’s insane!”
(Pause)
“I just can’t make myself believe that you’re my main character.”
(Pause)
“Wait, that’s from my book. Your dialogue.”
(Pause)
“Yeah, you did say that about your, your crush. That he gives every love song you hear meaning and no book or movie love could ever match how you feel about him. He quiets your mind even when it’s the loudest. Ok, I suppose I have no choice but to believe you.”
(Pause)
“So, how are you here, book girl?”
(Pause)
“You don’t know? You felt me walking away and you had to stop me? Why?”
(Pause)
“To come back and finish writing the last chapter? Look, I wish I could, but I, I have a bit of writer’s block. I was hoping to clear my head and get some inspiration to finish.”
(Pause)
“No, it doesn’t seem to be helping yet. Although you are definitely a major distraction.”
(Pause)
“I wish I could, but…”
(Pause)
“No, I can't just write an ending. You don’t get to choose your ending, it has to flow naturally with what came before it. And your chara {character}, Breathes in you don’t have the courage or confidence yet to talk to him. I’m sorry I haven’t done a better job of developing you enough. Not to say you aren’t a great person, you’re just, not there yet.”
(Pause)
“I may know something about your situation.”
(Pause)
“Yeah, I have someone, I mean no, I don’t I…”
(Pause)
“Well, I mean your looks are kind of based on the girl I like. I changed your eye and hair color, but I still see her for my own inspiration. She works at a little bookstore around the corner and she’s so sweet, and kind, and funny, and beautiful.”
(Pause)
Either calm and resigned or panicked “I can’t ask her out. She’d laugh in my face.”
(Pause)
“Yeah, we talk a lot. She recommended some books for me and I may have given her a few chapters of my book to read, but she never got back with me. She either hates them or she realized the book is about her and I creeped her out! Damn it, I’m such an idiot!”
(Pause)
“Oh please, you’re a barely fictionalized female version of me. I know you know how I feel. I mean hell, even your name is a play off of mine. It’s hopeless.”
(Pause)
“Hey stop shouting someone will… huh, can anyone else see or hear you? Or am I talking to air to someone watching me?”
(Pause)
“Yep, definitely looks like I’m talking to myself based on the look the barista is giving me. Come on. Let’s, go for a walk or something.”
(Pause)
“Oh shut up, I know it will still look crazy. I like this coffee shop and I’d like to continue coming here and that’ll be difficult if they think I talk to myself this much or if I claim to see a character from my novel sitting across the table from me.”
{She asks him the below question. He’s repeating it}
“You want to know whether you’re based on her or me?”
(Pause)
“Well, I guess both if I’m honest. Her looks, my actions I suppose.”
(Pause)
“Yeah, yeah you’re very pretty you dork.”
(Pause)
“That damn smile. Even without it really being her makes my heart pound.”
(Pause)
“Shut up. She makes me sappy.”
(Pause)
“Mmm, we’ve known each other for about two years now.”
(Pause)
“Yes, so have you and your love interest. I told you, barely fictionalized.”
(Pause)
“No, she’s single.”
(Pause)
“Because she is way out of my league. She deserves a Mr. Darcy, a Benedik, hell a Samwise Gamgee. Someone who is going to love her like she is the most precious person in the world to him. No pun intended with the Samwise and precious thing And most of all, someone who can tell her that, not just choke and lose their nerve anytime she looks him in the eye.”
(Pause)
“I mean, yeah, I’d love to be able to, but I can’t.”
(Pause)
“Damn it. Those puppy eyes are some hardcore manipulation, book girl. I wonder which of us you got that from.”
(Pause)
“I make no guarantees, but I guess I can try the next time I see her.”
“Huh? How did we? You little sneak! You led us in this direction. Or maybe it was me? I, I don’t know. This is all confusing and it makes my head hurt. Maybe I should come back another She pushes him inside ti…”
[Bell tinkling]
Nervous “Hi.”
(Pause)
“Doing well, you?”
(Pause)
“That’s good.”
(Pause)
“No, I’m not here for anything specific.”
Not a specific book I guess.
(Pause)
Shock “Wait, really? You finished the chapters? What, did you think?”
(Pause)
“Really? Oh yeah, the main character is definitely something else. Fondly She is pretty cool.
(Pause)
Wait, did I just call myself cool since she’s partially based off of me? I don’t care.”
(Pause)
“Oh um, the ending?”
I hate that they are both staring at me expectedly. When did book girl even appear?
“I’m not exactly sure yet. I think I need to develop the character a bit more before she has the courage to ask him out or maybe she just won’t. I mean that is a very realistic ending.”
(Pause)
No, please don’t look so disappointed. I know it hurts, but…
(Pause)
“Huh? What if he asks her out?”
(Pause)
“I mean, it’s not a bad idea, I just thought…”
(Pause)
“The realistic ending is true, but sometimes you just need a nudge?”
(Pause)
“A little, fiction in the fiction?”
(Pause)
“Hmm, I like that.”
Well, it has my gears turning. That’s a plus. Why is book girl getting closer? Heh, giving me a little nudge? Fine.
(Pause)
“You’ve always been so sweet to me and you’re beautiful. Can, I, I, um… Would you like to have dinner with me?”
(Pause)
“You said, yes? You said yes! She said…”
[He looks around]
Hey book girl is gone. Well, no worries. I’ll see her later. Gears in my head are going full speed.
“Hmm? What did you want to do?”
[She kisses his cheek and calls him cute]
“You, think I’m cute?”
(Pause)
Chuckles “If it’s for you, I’ll happily be cute.”
(Pause)
“Umm, do you have plans after you close the shop tonight?”
(Pause)
“No? Great! We can meet up when you’re done or, I could hang out until you close. If that’s not awkward.”
(Pause)
“Yeah, you do whatever you need. I need to make some notes on my phone anyway, unless you’d like some help.”
(Pause)
“Ok, well, if you need anything please just let me know. I’m just going to sit here at this table.”
(Pause)
“Damn my phone is almost dead. Hey, you wouldn’t happen to have a pencil and paper would you?”
[Paper rustling]
“Thanks.”
(Pause)
“It’s for, the ending.”