https://www.thestorydepartment.com/formatting-mistakes/ Story. Screenplay. Sale. Fri, 28 Aug 2015 03:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.thestorydepartment.com/formatting-mistakes/#comment-51159 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 07:55:14 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=31355#comment-51159 Though a highly specific topic is being talked about here, there is a deeper, more general, point here worth ‘taking home’: That screenplays are best written according to industry-agreed-upon conventions, else you risk putting a script reader off-side. And, as David Trottier points out, above, that is one big mistake you do NOT want to make … Especially if you are a yet-to-be-sold screenwriter. While, from a novelist’s point of view, these conventions will seem to be annoyingly rigid and confining, you simply can not afford to ignore or be ignorant of them. I personally prefer the formatting freedom that novelists have. But I am cognizant of the film industry enough to suffer the conventions in order to maximise the odds that my script submission will be read favourably.

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