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Scar Tissue Films
Posted: July 17th, 2018, 4:21am Report to Moderator
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My apologies, I somehow missed that you said the magic word Fountain. Yes, I�m familiar with John August�s excellent program, though your post did neglect to mention that you need Fountain or the syntax won�t do anything, and anyone who doesn’t know it won’t know what you mean. But you are 100% correct, it will format everything for you.

I still recommend having screenwriting software that has production tools and getting familiar with it. Hopefully you�ll need it some day.


Fountain is not a program.

Fountain is the syntax.

Anything written in that syntax, anywhere, gets automatically translated into industry standard format when you stick it into a screenwriting package. You can write on this site, email, wordpad, anywhere, and you'll end up with an Industry Standard format as long as you stick to the syntax, which all seasoned writers already know.

One of its many advantages is complete cross platform and software compatibility. Whatever OS or software package the production team is using, or demanding, you can guarantee your. Txt masterfile will be accepted into that OS environment.

You'll still need the software as finishing tools, or if you want to schedule with movie magic, or whatever, but that's not really relevant to the writing side of things.

Fountain' s not for beginners, working their way up to using pro software, it's the opposite, it's for people who are experts at format, regularly shift between different environments and want complete control over the way they write.

https://johnaugust.com/2013/why-i-like-writing-in-fountain

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Never heard of Writer's Duet. Anyone have any experience with it?

Zack


The desktop app is good, the mobile app is dreadful, at least on Android, or at least on my phone (Samsung s.

The keyboard disappears when you press return, it crashes. It's extremely buggy.

Fade in, Celtx, Dubscript have been better in my experience if mobile writing is something you do.
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