![]() It's under $100 for both, Scrivener does index cards, outlines and treatments as well as screenplay pages. If I were advising a noob screenwriter, I'd say Scrivener plus FadeIn is a good compromise. ![]() If you're agonizing over apps or fonts or brads instead of cranking out pages, there's something wrong anyway. IMHO, the best software is the thing that helps you write the most pages the most often. Do you write treatments before the script? Index cards? Outlines? Mind maps? There's a lot of software to help that, too. MovieMagic is good, too, but only about 25% market penetration.Īlso, it's important to match your tools to your process. If you're working in Hollywood, it's Final Draft, because everybody else is using FD. If you like to be loose and creative, Scrivener is awesome. If you like cheap, celtx or a text editor are great. One thing about screenwriting software: you can't please everyone. So I feel there is no solution, however the way things work now I might attempt to use Scrivener for the first go at the second draft of my script, and then something like Final Draft for adding polish. ![]() I also want to feel how the script flows as I'm reading it all the way through, and be able to make changes on subsequent passes. Not the most elegant solution because I like to see how what I'm writing looks, white space is so important. Scrivener kind of does this, it allows you to have multiple folders and multiple files, each file representing a story segment, you then compile it at the end to see what it looks like formatted. I want to be able to split my script up into acts -> segments -> scenes -> slug lines if I want to. I want software that can separate the story from the formatting, so I want arbitrary segments in the document and I want it to go many layers deep. Action can flow through multiple locations. The main thing I don't like about screenwriting software is that things are organised by sluglines, a slugline isn't a good representation of a segment of a story because it is simply a location change. I might give scrivener another shot, they have a beta for linux. Both are better for finishing off a script, and for final formating, but I'm not convinced that they are better for writing it.
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