Hey all! Been lurking for a bit.
After thirty years obsessing over feature films (and a background in writing), I finally put in the legwork and wrote my first feature. It took four drafts and a year-and-a-half of sweat equity.
Honestly, I have trouble reading traditional script format due to the wildly fluctuating justification, so I wrote the entire thing left-justified in OpenOffice.
I'm about ~3 days away from completing it, and I realize no one worth anything will take this seriously unless it's "properly" formatted.
Can someone recommend the most cost-friendly and easiest way to do this? I can do it all by hand, but it'll take a couple days of useless, manual work that probably won't even look perfect in the end.
Feels silly to buy Final Draft just for this one purpose.
I have *some* industry contacts and am very excited to start sending this out there. I did a beta-read round and got very positive reactions.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
After thirty years obsessing over feature films (and a background in writing), I finally put in the legwork and wrote my first feature. It took four drafts and a year-and-a-half of sweat equity.
Honestly, I have trouble reading traditional script format due to the wildly fluctuating justification, so I wrote the entire thing left-justified in OpenOffice.
I'm about ~3 days away from completing it, and I realize no one worth anything will take this seriously unless it's "properly" formatted.
Can someone recommend the most cost-friendly and easiest way to do this? I can do it all by hand, but it'll take a couple days of useless, manual work that probably won't even look perfect in the end.
Feels silly to buy Final Draft just for this one purpose.
I have *some* industry contacts and am very excited to start sending this out there. I did a beta-read round and got very positive reactions.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
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