I bet – and to be honest I didn’t check that out – but I bet you can get a lot more features for novelists if you go to LibreOffice, download the free text editor and go with that.īecause what Final Draft is if you strip all the screenwriting functionality away is: it’s a very simple, basic text editor. So what Final Draft did was cram the novel template in there somewhere to make it appear it’s for novelists too – which is an assumption on my part – but they don’t give you the tools that really help you. Yes, you could somehow fiddle with the formatting elements and make them useable for you somehow. It’s not made for writing novels in mind.Īnd that’s exactly the problem. Final Draft doesn’t work with styles like Heading 1, Heading 2, and so forth. But in a novel? How would someone know to which part of a half-page paragraph the note belongs? The Notes feature only works on a paragraph by paragraph basis, something that is excusable in a movie script where a paragraph is 4 lines maximum. And scenes need a slugline element, which you don’t use in novels. You can’t use the navigator because that only works for scenes. The problem is that for writing novels, Final Draft gives you nothing else than a pretty basic text editor.īecause all the other bells and whistles are made for movie scripts. And theoretically you could write a novel in any text editor you like, even on the notepad or in TextEdit on the Mac. So, yes, you can write a novel in Final Draft because Final Draft is a text editor. ExportingĪs far as exporting goes, you have the same possibilities as with any other script file in Final Draft, you can export in pdf, Final Draft fdx format, and a couple of other text formats like simple text and rtf, which is Rich Text Format. You can change that of course, I just suppose that you might want to use a different font for writing a novel, since there is no necessity (other than with movie scripts) to use a 12 point courier type. The font is set by default to the same Courier Final Draft Font as the script templates. All the other kinds of formatting elements wouldn’t make sense for anything that is not a script. You have the template filled with some sample text and if you go to the formatting elements you see that the formatting element is set to “General”. The novel template is basically just like any other script document in Final Draft, just the formatting is a little different. Book Templatesįinal Draft has a couple of templates for book authors ready, of which you’re most probably going to use the “Novel” template. The version I’m using for the purpose of demonstration here is Version 11. Notes are then synced to the ScriptNotes in the navigator.There are a couple of things that you should keep in mind before you start writing your novel in Final Draft. ScriptNotes allows you to create, open and edit notes on your screenplay in a popover window and visually customize them by color and type. IMPROVED! Beat Board Collaboration, Find/Replace, Spell CheckĬollaborators can now access the Beat Board, while the new Spell Check and Find & Replace features make the Beat Board even more user-friendly. Keep a record of edits to your script and choose whether to accept or reject your changes, giving you even greater control over the editing process.Ĭustomize your creative environment, eliminate distractions and get down to the business of writing.Īccess quick-start educational templates with common story structures like 3 Act, Pyramid, the Hero’s Journey, Save the Cat and more. The Outline Editor gives you a bird’s eye view of your screenplay structure, and multiple customizable lanes for high- level outlining. Send your outline to script and see it on the page for easy reference as Outline Elements, then show and hide the outline as needed during your writing process. Have a screenplay you want to work on but only have a PDF? No problem! You can now import a PDF into Final Draft 12 and convert it into a fully editable Final Draft file.įlow Lines allow you to show connections between beats and create a Story Flow for advanced screenplay outlining.
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