Last updated: 7/2009

ought, but very few of them take that next important step and actually write a script.

SCREENPLAY DESIGNER
can take you from someone with a great idea to a writer with a finished script quickly and painlessly. The secret is using the power of outlining to make your script flow, feel and read like a movie.

Finish your 1st Drafts faster by outlining the way the pros do, the way that is taught in all the best film schools and screenwriting programs.
If you?re reading this it?s probably because you have a desire to write. The trap that many new screenwriters fall into is that they want to start turning out pages as quickly as possible, and they start the scripting process before they have figured out their story. They get through the first 30-40 pages with no problems, but then they start to slow down or get stuck completely. The reason is that they haven?t taken the time to figure out their story, what to put in and what to leave out.

What is SCREENPLAY DESIGNER?
It?s a software program for Windows that organizes all of your screenplay ideas in one place, and lets you develop them right in the program without having to create a new file for every idea, outline or script.

SCREENPLAY DESIGNER FEATURES
Organize and develop story ideas and structures.
Fully develop and orchestrate characters.
Designer is based on the Three-Act paradigm.
Quickly and easily outline scenes.
Write your entire script usinig Designer?s database technology or export the outline to your favorite wordprocessor.
Print detailed Structure, Character and Outline reports.
Print your script to PDF, with or without a cover page.
Export Outlines to text files for import into any word processor.
Context sensitive help.
"How Do I" help section walks you through all procedures.
Glossary of all terms used in Screenplay Designer.
Full-text outline search to view all scenes with specific characters or locations.

My Story
Like many of you, I was an aspiring writer. I went to UCLA, read all the books, and climbed my way up to the bottom rungs of the screenwriting ladder, which means that I've had a couple of agents, took a bunch of meetings, came close to selling, but haven't quite made it. What I have done, however, is that I've worked in the biz in a number of different capacities. The most enlightening was being a reader, or story analyst, and also being an agent's assistant. What I learned from those experiences, and meeting lots of writers, was that the successful writers were the ones who knew how to outline well. I've talked with lots of novice screenwriters who don't like to outline because they don't think that it's really writing. Instead of outlining what they do is write a bunch of drafts while trying to figure out their story. What the professionals do is that they figure out their story, and then they write the script. The novice way and the professional way involve the same two sequential steps:
1. FIGURE OUT THE STORY
2. WRITE THE SCRIPT
The big difference is that the pros are able to work much quicker because they don't have to write several drafts of a script to come up with the story. They do that when they're outlining. Now this isn't to say that pros only write one draft of a screenplay, but they write far fewer than the writers who don't outline.
So I created Screenplay Designer to exploit the power of the computer to help me in my writing. One of the main benefits of the program for me is that I have lots of ideas, and it?s much easier for me to keep a database of ideas that I can search through and develop on my computer, than it is to have a bunch of notebooks, or scraps of paper, or even a bunch of different files in a bunch of different directories on my computer.

QUICK TOUR

The Browse Story window lists all of the story ideas that you have entered into Screenplay Designer. You can also view example stories.

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The Change Story window is where the story is developed, and the characters and scenes are listed for easy editing.

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The Act Tabs are where the story is developed using the industry standard Three-Act structure.

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The Character Tab lists all of the characters for the story that is being edited. The personality attributes help you orchestrate the characters to better dramatize the story.

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The Scenes Tab is where your story is outlined. Each scene can be given a color to help you keep track of acts, sequences, or different storylines.

FREE BONUS
As part of my introductory offer, I?m giving a FREE random name generator to everyone who buys Screenplay Designer.

The Random Naminator has the ability to create millions of random names. It can create male or female names, with or without nicknames. You can also add names to the seed file to increase the potential names.

Windows Compatibility
Both Screenplay Designer and Random Naminator are Windows compatible and work with the following versions: 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
* Neither program is Mac compatible, and have not been tested with Windows emulators.

Introductory Offer

My research has indicated that the optimum price point for Screenplay Designer is $79. But this is a new product, and what I don't have are testimonials. I always feel better about a product that I'm buying on the internet if there are a bunch of customers who have taken the time to get back in touch with the manufacturer or publisher to express how much they like the product. So for a limited time I'm offering Screenplay Designer for $49 to increase sales, and I know that once people start using Screenplay Designer their outlining skills will increase, and they'll end up with better first drafts, and they?ll give me great testimonials. So take the bonuses and $30 off the