ok here's the question: if a person's name is like J.P or C.J then is it supposed to be like this:

C.J
I need an answer right now!

or like this:

C.J.
Seriously! it's urgent!

?

I probably wouldn't even use the periods, just CJ or JP.

If you insist on using periods, it would be properly written with the periods after each letter.

alright, no periods then!

i must ask though cos i'm a perfectionist.

is the ACTION do i write it like

JP walks over..

or

J.P walks over...

?

my feature length script Children of The Dead isn't gonna be finished any time soon so i'm digging up some of my shorts in the meantime. one of them will be up soon. can't wait to hear what you guys think!

A snippet from the Coen Brother's Raising Arizona script...

OVER BLACK:

                                     VOICE OVER
                         My name is H. I. McDunnough...

               A WALL

               With horizontal hatch lines.

                                     VOICE OVER
                         ...Call me Hi.

               A disheveled young man in a gaily colored Hawaiian shirt is
               launched into frame by someone offscreen.

               He holds a printed paddle that reads "NO. 1468-6 NOV. 29
               79."

               The hatch marks on the wall behind him are apparently height
               markers.

                                     VOICE OVER
                         ...The first time I met Ed was in
                         the county lock-up in Tempe,
                         Arizona...

               FLASH

               As his picture is taken.

               CLOSEUP

               On the paddle: "NOV. 29 79."

                                     VOICE OVER
                         ...a day I'll never forget.

               A bellowing male voice from offscreen:

                                     SHERIFF
                         Don't forget the profile, Ed!

               ANGLE ON THE STILL CAMERA

               It is mounted on a tripod. A pretty young woman in a severe
               police uniform peers out from behind it.

                                     WOMAN
                         Turn to the right.

                                     HI
                         What kind of name is Ed for a pretty
                         thing like you?

                                     ED
                         Short for Edwinna. Turn to the right!

               HI obliges, but still looks at Ed out of the corner of his
               eye.

                                     HI
                         You're a flower, you are. Just a
                         little desert flower.

Doesn't look to me like periods in initials are necessary. :)

righteo!

If you show anyone a script without exactly two periods in the name after each letter, they will blacklist you so you never write again and will also hire hitmen to kill you.

I am being sarcastic.  It's a minor point, and I doubt anybody will notice one way or another.  Be consistent though to avoid confusion, of course.

i think i'm one of the biggest perfectionists who ever lived.

i have to have everything right!  :)