What is Screenwriting Software?
Every day, Hollywood is inundated with thousands of unsolicited screenplays mailed by hopeful writers looking for that big break. This excludes scripts generated from within the industry by successful writers, directors and actors. With such stiff competition, an unknown writer needs every advantage. Submitting a screenplay that is not properly formatted alerts the Hollywood reader to the fact that the writer is a novice before even a single word is read. That could be why so many hopeful writers have turned to screenwriting software. Screenwriting software takes the tedious work out of formatting a screenplay and allows the writer to create work in the industry format by default. Shortcut keys and other conveniences make writing a screenplay with screenwriting software a breeze. Master scene headings or slug lines, character’s names, action and parentheticals are all preprogrammed —- no need to write macros or rely on manual tabbing or guesswork.
