How Do You Write In A Professional Screenplay Format?
As a script reader I see all kinds of writing, from wonderful to unreadable. One thing I can see at a glance, though, is whether the writer was committed enough to buy professional screenwriting software, because the formatting is always exactly right, even if the spelling isn’t. Of course, you can set up a document in a regular word processor to those same exact settings, but almost no one knows how. They approximate it, and I can always tell. (For instance, nothing should ever be “centered” in a screenplay. Some elements may look centered, but they aren’t.) Until you can afford to buy some script writing software, here are some very basics to get you started. Your font should always be Courier, or Courier New, or some very similar variation. Another font with a typewriter look won’t necessarily do: the font has to be mono-spaced. That means that all letters take up the same amount space, even the i and the m. There are a lot of reasons for this — such as the standardization of lengt
