WriterDuet is a free cloud screenwriting software. It comes with some advanced tools that help you write professional screenplays. You don’t have to focus on the formatting; just write your script and ...

The goal of an advertising script is to give the commercial producer the copy needed to sell a product or service. Good copy gets consumers attention, builds brand recognition and urges the audience ...

There’s an irony to short filmmaking. Most aspiring filmmakers come to screenwriting having grown up inspired by feature films, therefore, when it comes time make their first films, short filmmakers ...

November is the time of year when movie studios release the best they’ve got. Take Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar,” a time-dilating science-fiction film starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne ...

In a world where people tell their stories on film from ideas that start on paper, there are two powerful platforms that provide all the tools budding screenwriters need: Final Draft and Celtx. One is ...

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A while back I described Fountain, a markup syntax for screenwriting (see “Formatting Screenplays with Fountain,” 5 March 2015). To recap briefly, Fountain allows screenwriters to use just about any ...

This specialist word processor has enough quirks to make it irritating, yet it continues to speed up the repetitive parts of screenwriting so much. AppleInsider starts crafting the next, great Netflix ...

If you’re a screenwriter or want to be a screenwriter, then at some point you will have used Final Draft. Co-founded in 1990 and now in its 12th version, the Final Draft screenwriting software boasts ...

What is screenwriting software supposed to do? The simplest answer we could think of is: make our lives easier. Peter J. Haas provides a round up of the more popular screenwriting software packages ...