Yes, Final Draft's excellent ScriptNotes could be made simpler and more efficient by learning from WriterSolo. Again, it lends to the overall feel of flow. Now, I'm getting into the habit of using Bookmarks for all my writing. I needed placeholders to do this efficiently - enter Bookmarks. Foolishly, I didn't appreciate this feature in Final Draft until I began to attempt to write 12 episodes in the one file and had to move back and forth among the episodes - the few I did start on - to check consistency. But instead of pausing to correct it, a macro does it for me, perhaps gaining half-a-second each time.Īnother thing. About half-a-dozen times in the first few pages I lapsed into spelling it "Bently". One of the main characters in "Kuga's Way (pilot)" is "Bentley". Sure, I'm talking about gaining merely fractions of a second. I don't have to press the shift key when typing the first letter. As I type a character name in action paragraphs, automatically the first letter is capitalised. I have "programmed" macros that make it so. Whatever features screenwriting software have, ultimately it's in the flow. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.For the few hours I've been writing episode one of the Six Sixers, titled "Day of the Triffids" in WriterSolo's superb environment, and, in the process, still learning the ins and outs of its user-interface, I realised why Final Draft means so much to me. Expressing opinion: “”They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,” said Atticus, ‘but before I can live with other folds I’ve got to live with myself.Accent: “I got hurt a little, en couldn’t swim fas’, so I wuz a considable ways behine you, towards de las’ when you langed I reck’ned I could ketch up wid you on de lan’ ‘doubt havin’ to shout at you, but when I see day house I begin to go slow.” (Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn). ![]() I embrody lots of little stars and flowers too.” (Alice Walker, The Color Purple) I embroder Olivia in the sea of all her daidies. Think about when you talk with a group of friends-you all don’t use the same lingo or vocabulary, right? The same goes for your characters! X Research source Not only does this help define a character’s personality, but it also helps define the character on the page. Give characters specific speech patterns or word choices. Your characters are one of a kind, so don’t be afraid to give them speaking quirks and express their opinions. Make your character(s) voice stand out with dialects and/or vocabulary. “Yeah, right,” I say, while, at the same time, Georgie exclaims, “Are you serious?”. ![]()
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