Members DramatistDreamer Posted May 2 Members Share Posted May 2 When I was in grad school, I used to use a brand called Sophocles. I was able to get it at half price because I was a student and that screenwriting software was the best one I have ever used, superior to FD. I used it lol throughout my MFA program and it never gave me one single problem with typing my screenplays and television scripts. I had read that it was most likely that the developer was bought out by the makers of FD who quashed the software. If my laptop hadn’t died, I would still be using it. It was that good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NothinButAttitude Posted May 2 Members Share Posted May 2 I can concur that Final Draft is buggy as hell. I think that's part of the reason why I haven't updated mine to the latest version. The only reason I am considering it is b/c of the Grammarly extension you add to it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted May 3 Members Share Posted May 3 I ain't updated it either lol. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted May 3 Members Share Posted May 3 About “The Gates”, I really hope that MVJ avoids the pitfalls that today’s daytime network soaps have fallen into, staying wedded to the same tired tropes and stereotypical themes. Leave the old 20th century Dynasty style catfights where they belong. Women can be as strategic and calculating as any man, show them as captains of industry who are capable of moving and manipulating people and situations as if they are grandmasters moving pieces on a chessboard. 21st century boss moves is something I would like to see. (*Insert GIF of Emily Stewart, seated behind a desk, reclining in a chair , heels atop the desk with a smug expression on her face-if I ever find that clip*). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members janea4old Posted May 3 Members Share Posted May 3 And please no teens and very young adults getting pregnant. Let's have modern young people. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ReddFoxx Posted May 4 Members Share Posted May 4 Final Draft is too expensive to crash like that. At over $200 it should work better. I had the full version years ago and I understand why professionals use it because it's great for editing and you can select which elements you want read out loud so you don't have to listen to stage directions read if all you need to hear is dialogue. I've been using Fade In for my scripts and it's pretty good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted May 4 Members Share Posted May 4 ICAM!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted May 4 Members Share Posted May 4 I'd love a character I can relate too, maybe one who doesn't ever want kids. Maybe had her tubes tied or a vasectomy(for a guy) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted May 4 Members Share Posted May 4 It has become industry standard just by hanging around long enough. Similar to Y&R, they don’t have to do much to maintain loyalty from their base, I guess. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted May 4 Members Share Posted May 4 (edited) I'd love to see (on any show) a story about a woman who chooses to terminate a pregnancy for very simple and practical reasons and who doesn't suffer some form of retribution for it afterward. I'd also love to see a young vixen who isn't raped as punishment for "being bad," and a young heroine who doesn't lose her virginity to rape, too. Edited May 4 by Khan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BetterForgotten Posted May 4 Members Share Posted May 4 I just want to see black folks represented for the complex and multifaceted people they are as much as any other race. Not the default best friend, thug, and steeped in condescension “goody” and sanitized town doctor or cop. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted May 4 Members Share Posted May 4 ICAM! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sapounopera Posted May 4 Members Share Posted May 4 I just hope that not everybody is crazy rich, people don't have 80s mini series names and nobody dreams of turning the show into a campy farse. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted May 5 Members Share Posted May 5 Similarly, I hope the African-American characters don't have stereotypically African-American names that don't really exist outside of the Maury show. But she was so GOOD at it: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted May 5 Members Share Posted May 5 I wouldn’t mind seeing a Demarco or a Demetrius or a Teyana. Some recognizably Black names. I’m ready for some complex, interesting layered Black men. Curtis, T.J., Devon, Nate, Carter, and Zende aren’t cutting it. The soap writers couldn’t be less interested in those characters. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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