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Desmond
Posted: December 3rd, 2023, 8:15am Report to Moderator
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Hi. I am getting confusing Final draft errors. I cant see these as errors
Also when you click on NEW you don't get a blank bage but a copy of another .fdx
These are all on first page attached.

1. ROSEY
Charaecter must have dialouge

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Skehan. According to Brigid he once
Dialouge should be imediatly proceeded by a character or ()

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nearly cut his finger off live on TV.
Dialouge should be imediatly proceeded by a character or ()

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should have told him not to play
Dialouge should be imediatly proceeded by a character or ()

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with sharp knives.
Dialouge should be imediatly proceeded by a character or ()

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two blank lines after cut to inserted by Front Page.



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LC
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I don't get what the problem is. It looks fine to me except your parentheticals shouldn't be in Caps if you're adhering to Industry Standard. And character CONT'Ds are optional in dialogue unless going over the page.


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It looks like you hit enter after a line of dialog instead of the end of the entire dialog. Final Draft would format the next line as action, which it looks like you re-formatted into dialog to continue what the character was saying.

Final Draft expects you to just type dialog in one big blurb and trust their linebreaks. Having two distinct bits of dialog back-to-back is apparently a no-no.


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Good to see you, Frank!
And you seemed to get to the bottom of this for Desmond.  


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Good to see you, Frank!
And you seemed to get to the bottom of this for Desmond.  


My attempt to sneak back in is foiled!

Thought I should at least re-appear saying something useful.


Feature-length scripts:
Who Wants to Be a Princess? (Family)
Glass House (Horror anthology)

TV pilots:
"Kord" (Fantasy)
"Mal Suerte" (Superhero)

Additional scripts are listed here.
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