Expected character or scene change...help plz

Creator's Corner Directing Help & Tips
1

Ok so every time i make a choice but I don’t fill it yet it gives me this error.

choice
“Give him a excuse” {

    JAMIYAH 
I gotta tell him before he comes!

    NARRATOR
*Calls Justin*

    JAMIYAH 
Umm Justin...

    NARRATOR
Justin: Yeah?

    JAMIYAH 
You can't come over anymore my parents are here!

    NARRATOR    
Justin: That's fine we can just hang out!

    JAMIYAH
No, like their making me go to bed early so we can....wake up for church in the morning...

    NARRATOR
Justin: Oh ok, we can hang out another time then.

    JAMIYAH 
Ok, bye!

    NARRATOR
*hangs up*

@JAMIYAH is

    JAMIYAH 
That was close!

@transition fade out 1
INT. BLACK - DAY
@transition fade in 1

    NARRATOR 
That was a close save.
But will he find out that

gain will_he_find_out

goto end_of_story

}

“Just let him come” {

    JAMIYAH 
Forget it. Just let him come.

    JAMIYAH 
Nothing bad could happen!

}

where is says “Just let him come in” {, thats where its giving me that error.

Can someone help plz

2

“Just let him come” { needs to be on the same line as the end bracket or on the very next line. You can’t skip a whole line between the ending bracket and the next option.

It needs to look like this:

} "Just let him come" {

or this:

}
"Just let him come" {
3

thank you so much!!!

4

sorry but i have another question.

so im trying to make my character move from one spot to another. How would i do that

@JUSTIN screen center to screen left

5

@CHARACTER walks to screen left

6

thx again

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7

I just saw this thread and I know you fixed your original issue, but I thought you might want to know that when you are having a phone conversation, and one of your characters isn’t actually seen, just heard (like Justin), you can make the Narrator bubble have their name on it! All you have to do is:

       NARRATOR (JUSTIN)
   That's fine, we can just hang out.

This means you can also do:

       NARRATOR (JAMIYAH)
  *Calls Justin*
8

oh, thank you! I didnt want to do more coding to switch between them because me friends wanna see the story bad so thank you!!!