There was something so much simpler to Final Draft I could write on it without reading the instructions and it didn’t explode or turn my scripts into gobbledy-gook. Being a canny shopper I tried all the others as well, even the free ones, but they just didn’t do it for me. Fast forward to 2005 and I had some spare money and I was gonna buy me Final Draft. But I didn’t have a computer at this time and besides, I was a single Mum and had other stuff to buy, like food.Īnyway. Final Draft’s price tag put me off at first I thought, what could screenwriting software do that I couldn’t? Then I had a go on it and loved it, so had to eat my words: it really did take the stress out of formatting. I never came across Final Draft until I became a script reader at university I always used MS Word and manually formatted as I went along.
#Final draft 8 problems skin#
Seems mad now you can’t delete typos, you don’t get multiple copies (can’t store them either) and maybe it was just me, but I always used to get my eight year old fingers stuck between the “s” and the “z”, taking the skin off them. I’ve been writing so long now I started on a typewriter.