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Tech Tips: Globally Changing Character Names

June 28, 2019

Congratulations! You’ve just typed FADE OUT on the first draft of your screenplay. You know there will be re-writing, re-working and the re-hashing of old ideas, but you’ve pushed that boulder to the top of the screenwriting hill and completed a draf...

Tech Tips: Night Mode

June 7, 2019

It’s the end of the day, and whether you’re just getting home from work or revisiting the day’s pages, sitting down to get some more writing done is just a part of your daily toil as a writer. After so many nights of opening your laptop and launching...

Tech Tips: Image Support

May 31, 2019

Tina Fey once said, “You have to let people see what you wrote.” In its most traditional sense, screenwriting is the art of writing visually so that the work can be translated to the big screen. It’s often said that a good script can be seen before i...

Tech Tips: Unicode

May 17, 2019

Final Draft may be the industry standard screenwriting application, but it's not just writers who use it. Producers, animators, and more can use Final Draft’s newest features to have greater control on a story from script to screen.

Tech Tips: Where Did My Characters Go?

May 10, 2019

Tech Tips: Tagging for Writers

April 26, 2019

Tracking characters: it’s at the forefront of any writer’s mind when writing a script. Whether we’re tracking a character’s emotional arc, their interactions with other characters, or how many times they’ve scratched someone’s name off their kill lis...

Tech Tips: Boneyard In the Beat Board

April 18, 2019

Great scripts aren’t written; they’re re-written.

Tech Tips: Opening Files in Final Draft Go

April 12, 2019

With Final Draft Go, the ability to write scripts anytime, anywhere has never been easier. If you’ve noticed a new look to Final Draft Go, it’s because the app has been updated to make organizing, synching and writing your scripts even easier than be...

Tech Tip: Non-Speaking Characters

April 5, 2019

Non-speaking characters: every script has them, and for good reason. A non-speaking character can be an extra, a background character, or even a character that literally doesn’t speak – maybe their sole purpose is to intimidate others like the re-ani...