Writelife

First of all, I know many of you spell it check but I’m Canadian and my mother would give me a lickin’ if I were to spell it anyway other than cheque.

But I’m not here to burble about the vagaries of spelling and nationalities. I have added new software to my new Powerbook. I’ve added Final Draft Scriptwriter’s Suite.

How rich will I be? Hmm?

The truth is I know nothing about screenwriting, which is what Final Draft is basically for (the radio/video software is Final Draft AV, both packaged in the Scriptwriter’s Suite). And the software can’t make you creative, doesn’t provide brilliant ideas and, more to the point, can’t sell a damn script for you.

But it does make the tedious business of layout (all the formatting crap) a lot easier. And that’s always been one of my biggest writing obstacles.

I get caught up way to readily in how what I write looks on the page. And I get obsessive about ensuring it is “correct.” So hopefully the software will take some of that silliness away and allow me to simply write.

I wish I had had the Final Draft AV software back when I worked in radio and did freelance video things.

As with all new software and hardware, it will take me a while to get use to it, discover all it can do and so on. But over time, it will hopefully be incorporated in my work and make it all a lot easier.

Now, if I could only find software that did the actual idea generation and execution (i.e., the actual writing) I’d be set!

Tag: Writing, Screenwriting, Final Draft

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