The phrase "almost a script" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that resembles a script but is not fully developed or formalized as one.
Example: "The dialogue in the play was almost a script, but it still needed some refinement before the final performance."
Alternatives: "nearly a script" or "practically a script".
In the midst of talking about this, almost always without a script and almost always on tricky subjects of gender and race and right and left and what is in our country's interest and who I think is telling the truth and who I think isn't, I know I'm dealing with sensitive feelings.
Sounding noticeably stilted, he read from a teleprompter and almost stuck to a script for the first time in his campaign during Monday night's high-stakes appearance at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac).
Here's a fragment from an almost script with a film star who seems to be falling for her stunt double.
Fruchterman joined Ross and Hannah to found what would become Calera Recognition Systems, where they launched one of the first OCR technologies that used machine learning to "read" almost any script, not just pre-programmed ones.
"That was almost a perfectly written script for what you can't do to win a hockey game," said Richter, after the Rangers allowed their opponent 11 power plays for the second consecutive game.
You almost need to make a script before you start designing what's happening on the screen.
Meryl Streep signed up almost before there was a script, and that put us on the map.
One source described it as almost like reading from a script written by senior anti-terrorism officers.
Ira Konigsberg, author of the 1997 Complete Film Dictionary, is musing over the fusings: scriptment is "a treatment almost as long as a script"; synthespian is "a digitally created character" played by an actor and drawn by cartoonists; privacation -- combining "private" and "publication" -- means "work for sale on the Internet that can be downloaded".
The film's trump card is the debates themselves — first during the Republicans' convention in Miami, then three weeks later during the Democrats' in Chicago — resurrected in rarely seen footage that, 47 years on, remains almost giddily entertaining: "Crossfire" with a script by Noël Coward.
