dramatic composition, dramatic work - a play for performance on the stage or television or in a movie etc.

prompt copy, promptbook - the copy of the playscript used by the prompter

continuity - a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot

dialog, dialogue - the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction

libretto - the words of an opera or musical play

scenario - an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work)

screenplay - a script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets

shooting script - the final detailed script for making a movie or TV program

handwriting - the activity of writing by hand; "handwriting can be slow and painful for one with arthritis"

shorthand, stenography - a method of writing rapidly

cursive, cursive script, longhand, running hand - rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper

writing - letters or symbols written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language; "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible"

calligraphy, penmanship - beautiful handwriting

cacography, scrawl, scribble, scratch - poor handwriting

orthography, writing system - a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols

Aramaic script, Aramaic - an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it

Avestan - the script in which the ancient Persian language of the Avesta is written

Brahmi - a script (probably adapted from the Aramaic about the 7th century BC) from which later Indian scripts developed

Devanagari, Devanagari script, Nagari, Nagari script - a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi

Pahlavi - the script (derived from the Aramaic alphabet) used to write the Pahlavi language

Uighur, Uigur, Uygur - the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language

uncial - a style of orthography characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; found especially in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the 4th to 8th centuries

cuneiform - an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia

syllabary, syllabic script - a writing system whose characters represent syllables

alphabet - a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language

authorship, penning, writing, composition - the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"

indite, pen, write, compose - produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"