the substance of many conversations and arguments about which screenwriting platform is the best (whether that conversation is in forums, or on Reddit, or in snarky blog comments) seems to always come back to someone asking the same question: Should I use Movie Magic Screenwriter or Final Draft? And the two most dominant in the last decade or so? Movie Magic Screenwiter and Final Draft.īut as I write this article, I find it a bit odd that while marketplace is fairly replete with a score of alternatives as of the last half decade or so - FadeIn, Slugline, WriterDuet, Adobe Story, CeltX, Highland, Scrivener, etc. Why is that? Because there have only been a small handful of screenwriting programs available. But I’ve only used a small handful of screenwriting programs. Since then, I’ve written, co-written, or worked on hundreds of feature screenplays.

I hit RETURN, just like I’d done a billion times before when writing in Microsoft Word and other word processors. In short, with all due praise to John Hodgman, I was a “PC.”Ī different kind of “PC,” Production Coordinator Joey Geiger laughed at me because I didn’t instinctively know to hit TAB to get from the scene heading to start typing the action text below. It was on a “Macintosh” because I didn’t call them “Macs” back then. At Roger Corman’s Concorde-New Horizons Studios in 1997, I opened a script file using Final Draft for the first time.

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