In dialogue, often you can excise a few words and it’ll read even better, more natural sounding, because you overwrote it in the first place (as we all do). It can be enough to yank back the drifting dangler. In action blocks, often you’ll find a lazy adjective or a leeching adverb, and that’s an opportunity to smoosh two indifferent words into a single powerful one. Look for ways to shorten your sentences and reel back a line. There’s already a nice slat of whitespace sitting under HIM. Well, that solitary guy just cost you a line of white space. You see it there? That antisocial little loner camped at bottom left? Yeah. Stay alert to the last words in dialogue or action blocks that spill over to the next line. Those folks on the other side of the screen. Yeah, don’t bother to point at THAT guy and be all like Me? Danglers? Oh no, no no no. Hmm… I wonder what my page count would be in Movie Magic Screenwriter (that other really popular screenwriting program)? Anyone have any experience comparing the natural page counts of the two? So if any of you have been putting off purchasing Final Draft 8, you can count, page count reduction serendipity as a great reason to buy. The only difference was that Final Draft 8 seemed to allow for a few more millimeters of space per page.Ī few millimeters doesn’t seem like much, but on certain pages it allowed for the occasional pushed content to be brought back onto a previous page - which of course caused a cascade of savings across the entire script - without having to cheat the margins. And that’s HUGE! Upon examining my script side by side in Final Draft 7 and Final Draft 8, I noticed that the settings were exactly the same. Over the course of a full script, that might work out to 2 or 3 pages in savings. After upgrading to Final Draft 8, I was now halfway down page 64! I had miraculously saved a full page and a half, just by upgrading! In my latest script, I was at the end of page 65 in Final Draft 7. I know, I know… What took me so long, right? I’m a big believer in the old, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” adage.Īnyway, I eventually realized that Final Draft 7, while not broken, was glitchy. Recently I upgraded from Final Draft 7 to Final Draft 8. Final Draft is arguably the most popular screenwriting program out there.
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