Final Draft 7 Professional Scriptwriting Win-Mac Description:

Final Draft 7 Professional Scriptwriting Win/Mac review:
5 stars (Simple, intuitive) - 30 seconds after loading the program on my computer, I was writing a script. You don't need to be David E. Kelly to figure out how to write the script format you want.
3 stars (Useful, but flawed) - Final Draft 7 is a nice piece of software. It is easy to use and it has a number of nice features (my favorite: assigning voices to characters and listening to the program read your script). This application really streamlines the process of writing a script, which is nice. You don't need to worry about wasting time formating. It's all automated.



Now to the bad stuff. This program is riddled with bugs. It crashes very frequently. I can't tell you how annoying it is to be intensely involved with your work only to have Final Draft crash on you, destroying pages of unsaved work. If you get this program then you will find yourself in the habit of pressing ctrl+S (save) every few lines.



Overall, Final Draft 7 is a useful, but flawed program. There's no denying its ease of use in crafting screenplays, but it can also be a major headache when it crashes.
5 stars (

Watch Out Hollywood, Here I Come!) - I have been writing short scripts since I was 11. I used Word to write them.



Now that I am in older, I am learning that following the traditional Hollywood script conventions make sense now that I am sending my work to scriptwriting contests, etc.



I got Final Draft because all my friends said it was 'what everybody used'. Normally, I would resist following this kind of advice, since I've always thought of myself as not being like everyone else & not following the crowd - but it was correct in this case.



Scripts are literally flowing out of me now.



Watch out Oscar, save one for me!