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Final Draft Creates Template to Remove Barriers for Differently-Abled Writers

May 16, 2023

Films like Everything Everywhere All At Once, CODA, Inside Out, Champions, and Silver Linings Playbook all have something extraordinary in common: they include a spectrum of neurodiverse characters of differing abilities.

5 Tips To Better Spelling and Grammar

March 29, 2023

When I was in junior high I started writing short stories, but I wasn’t academically inclined and not a particularly good speller. My grammar was also less than stellar. This didn’t stop me; however, and I kept writing my short stories anyway (usuall...

Connectivity in Storytelling and Flow Lines

December 5, 2022

When you watch a movie or TV show, you’ll notice that within the larger story there are various subplots.

What is a Beat Board, anyway??

November 29, 2022

Perhaps you’ve seen images of a TV writer’s room and noticed a whiteboard with a bunch of sticky notes attached to it or handwritten Sharpie notes. Or maybe you’ve watched a behind-the-scenes featurette on a DVD or Blu-ray and noticed a cork board at...

Saving and Backing Up Your Screenplay Files

August 19, 2022

The importance of a screenwriter saving and backing up their work cannot be stressed enough. Creativity is a precious thing and you have to seize those sometimes fleeting moments of inspiration. If you’re in the zone writing something you’re particul...

The Outline Editor™: How to Use the Tool for Outlining Success

July 22, 2022

Have an idea for a movie or TV pilot and want to write a screenplay, but you don’t know where to begin? Not only does Final Draft offer industry standard formatting for feature and TV scripts, but it also has various outlining tools that can help you...

Comic books and graphic novels: Creating the foundation for a film adaptation

June 21, 2022

There was once a time when only the occasional iconic superhero received the movie treatment. But in the past two decades, the popularity of the Marvel and DC film franchises has transformed the marketplace, and now comic book adaptations dominate th...

Importing a PDF into Final Draft

June 15, 2022

Any screenwriter knows that one of the most gratifying moments of the writing process is the moment they convert their script to PDF. Why? Because it means the script is complete, and it’s time to email it to friends and industry reps to read. But wh...

Why use screenwriting software?

May 31, 2022

For nearly a century the image of a writer hunched over a typewriter has been an indelible one. From William Holden using a traditional typewriter in Sunset Boulevard to Nicolas Cage typing away on his electric one in Adaptation, this visual has beco...