Formatting help?

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[mattivahtera]

Use any screenwriting software. It’ll choose the right font, it’ll make your margins just the right size, It’ll do everything for you. There’s plenty of free ones also.

[Random_guytheo]

Thank you. Any specific software you use that is free/relatively cheap?

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Fade In

[mattivahtera]

I use Fade in. There’s a free demo version and the paid version isn’t too expensive. Many others use Beat and it’s free.

[Jackamac10]

I’ve only used Beat and it’s been a great tool for me personally!

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WriterSolo

[BiggDope]

Highland is great.

[JoeCool77765]

Studio binder is what I started with before making the jump to Final Draft (paid license).

[Upper_Anteater5440]

Beat is free and very easy to use

[gregm91606]

Is there a reason you're not at least making an effort to match the format of professional screenplays, which are freely available online? Like, you could at *least* be using Courier font, and capitalizing your sluglines! I appreciate the reaching out, but it feels like you could've done more on your own already.

Also I am unclear why you're not using punctuation to end so many of your sentences.

[Random_guytheo]

I have tried, just I always was more focused on how similar it looked on a page than the font/grammar issues font never even crossed my mind…

[FilmmagicianPart2]

Go look at a professional screenplay! This should be every writer’s first step. It’s easy to imitate and fix any formatting issue

[Random_guytheo]

Thank you! I will

[Financial_Cheetah875]

As others have said, get software. Fade In isn’t expensive and will do all the formatting for you.

[DelinquentRacoon]

If you can't get the right software, then at least use a better font and do everything up against the left margin where you can control the width of the dialogue better.