A/the
Int. Main room - Apartment - Night
The room is dark. Sitting on a chair by the window is Emily, late 30s, staring blankly out at a/the sleeping city.
I know this is not really a question for this forum, but wanted your opinion anyway. This is the very first scene in a script I'm writing, so we don't know that the apartment is in a/the city before now. Would you write "a sleeping city" or "the sleeping city"?
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Since the city is the one where the apartment is situated, "the" is fine, and probably the most customary and unsurprising. If you want a more mysterious and ambiguous opening, - somewhere in the universe there is a city and it is sleeping - , you can use the indefinite article.
- Since the city is the one where the apartment is situated, "the" is fine, and probably the most customary and unsurprising.
- If you want a more mysterious and ambiguous opening, - somewhere in the universe there is a city and it is sleeping - , you can use the indefinite article.
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Since the city is the one where the apartment is situated, "the" is fine, and probably the most customary and unsurprising. If you want a more mysterious and ambiguous opening, - somewhere in the universe there is a city and it is sleeping - , you can use the indefinite article.
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