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Writing in Plot

Elements and formatting, slash commands, find and replace, takes, revision colors, production reports, and export.

How-to

Numbered steps to an outcome.

  1. Open the skill palette from the page, find a skill by typing its name, set the scope, and run it without reaching for the sidebar.

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  2. Search the script, step through matches, and replace one or all — including a character's name across every cue and line of dialogue.

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  3. Look up the word under your cursor without leaving the page — meaning, synonyms, opposites, related words, and rhymes — and swap a synonym straight in.

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  4. Hide the toolbar and both sidebars so only the page is left, then bring the chrome back with the same shortcut or Escape.

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  5. Leave yourself a note on any scene, color it, find it again from the Notes tab, and resolve it when the thought is used up.

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  6. Open an alternate version of one scene beside the original, compare the two side by side, and keep the one that works.

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  7. Lock the production draft, work through the colored revisions in the office's order, mark the changed lines with asterisks, and hand over a script that matches its conventions.

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  8. Open the script breakdown — every scene with its set, time of day, length, and cast — tag the props and vehicles, and export it as CSV or PDF.

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  9. Produce an industry-formatted PDF, a Final Draft file for the office, or a plain Fountain file, from the draft line and save point you choose.

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Concepts

What a thing is and why it exists.

  1. What each screenplay element is, how Plot decides which one a line is, and every way to change a line's type without leaving the keyboard.

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  2. Every speaking character in the script, with how much they say and where — and a rename that changes every cue at once.

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