THE FREE DOWNLOAD
THE ULTIMATE FORMATTING CHECKLIST
A free PDF detailing the top 20 formatting anomalies we see in spec scripts — and how to fix them.
It isn’t theory. It’s the list our readers compile from the scripts that cross their desks, which means it’s the twenty things most likely to mark a draft as amateur before anyone has read a word of your dialogue.
Formatting won’t sell a script. But bad formatting will stop one being read properly, and it’s the easiest problem on this list to fix.
WHO COMPILED IT
Working screenwriters who read spec scripts professionally — the same people who write our coverage.