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StoryWeaver

$29.95

A step by step approach to story development, from concept to completed story for your novel or screenplay. More than 200 interactive Story Cards guide you through the entire process.

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Dramatica

$149.95

Dramatica Pro 4.0<br>Plus FREE Bonus!

The most powerful story structuring software available, Dramatica is driven by a patented "Story Engine" that cross-references your dramatic choices to ensure a perfect structure.

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Movie Magic Screenwriter

$149.95

Movie Magic Screenwriter<br>Plus FREE Bonus!

The most advanced screenwriting software available, Movie Magic is deemed a "preferred file format" by the Writer's Guild. An industry standard, MMS is used by professionals and studios around the world.

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Throughline Index Cards

$9.95

Interactive index cards - Name them, add notes, titles, colors, click and drag to re-arrange, adjust font, save, export and print. An essential tool for every writer.

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Upgrade to Version 6

$99.95padCD-ROM for Windows and Mac 

$99.95padDownload for Windows and Mac 

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 Important Upgrade Instructions

We are required to verify your existing MMS serial number with the manufacturer before we provide your upgrade.  Follow this procedure when you order:

1.  Provide your existing MMS serial number in the "Comments" box in the ordering process.

2.  The manufacturer usually verifies eligibility for an upgrade on the next business day.

3.  If you ordered the CD ROM version, we will ship it immediately upon receipt of verification.

4.  If you ordered the Downloadable version, we will email you with a link where you can download your upgrade and a serial number that authorize your copy.

NOTE:  The Writer's Survival Kit Bonus Package is available with no waiting as soon as you order via a web link on your final order confirmation page.  Purchasers of the CD ROM upgrade will also receive a CD ROM copy of the Bonus Package.

Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 New Features

New in Version 6:

  • Integrated outlining lets you create and manipulate outlines up to thirty levels deep. (WIN / MAC)

  • The NaviDoc technology lets you navigate through your document effortlessly and has four panels: 

    • The Outline panel lets you add, remove, and rearrange outline elements (WIN / MAC)

    • The Scenes panel lets you navigate and sort your scenes at the click of a button (WIN / MAC)

    • The Bookmarks panel lets you set bookmarks to jump to any place in your document (WIN / MAC)

    • The Notes panel lets you create and sort color-coded notes & note categories (WIN / MAC)

  • Over 30 new templates for a total 104 templates and 12 sample files

    • 25 new TV show templates for a total of 86 TV templates

    • 2 new sample files (comic story arc & radio play) and 2 updated sample files (screenplay and stage play) for a total of 12 sample files

    • 3 new Instructional templates (classic film structure outline , screenplay, & sitcom structure) for a total of 8 instructional templates.

    • 4 new blank templates (generic comic, Gossett-Kayle comic, radio play, & radio show) and 1 modified template (stage play) for a total of 10 blank templates

  • Courier MM Screenwriter custom-made font for superior onscreen display and printing—not available anywhere else on the market

  • Improved tool bars & context menus 

  • Fit width zoom automatically adjusts the text size of your script as you resize the window (WIN / MAC)

  • Redesigned look and feel to accommodate the latest versions of Windows and Mac.

  • Menus reorganized for easier use

  • Send documents as email attachments in RTF or Adobe Acrobat PDF formats

  • Retain previous versions of documents

  • Makes back up copies of documents

  • Automatically checks for Updates


Nothing Could Be Easier

Just hit the "Tab" and "Enter" keys to move between different script elements such as Character, Dialogue, Action, etc. That's all you need to know! Since Screenwriter is instantly and automatically handling all the hassles of Industry Standard Formatting, you can focus on writing your story as fast as you can get your thoughts onto the screen!.



Integrated Outlining

Just Screenwriter 6's new outline feature lets you outline levels up to thirty levels deep. Now it's easier than ever to block in your ideas wherever you want in the document. Take advantage of Screenwriters instructional templates, such as the one for classic film structure, and see for yourself how useful this feature can be for your writing.


Move Through Your Script with the Click of a Button

Instantly find and jump to any scene in your script with NaviDoc Scenes panel. The Scenes panel lets you sort the scenes by different criteria without affecting the document. It also can show you as many lines of a scene as you want: from one to everything! This helps to quickly identify the scene you are searching for.

 

Your Personal Typing Assistant

Type just a few letters of the desired character name, set, scene, etc., and Screenwriter will enter it instantly. Screenwriter's intelligent interface that can virtually read your mind, and pop up menus with the text items you want, without your even needing to tell it you want them.


Better Than Post-its®

Jot down revision notes, casting suggestions, and research questions quicker than you can slap on a Post-it. The new NaviDoc Note panel feature allows you to quickly organize, access, view and print your script notes. You can hide or show your notes, and print them separately in a report with page-number references. You may even create dozens of different, color-coded note categories.


Brainstorm and Organize Your Ideas

Do you prefer to work with index cards? Screenwriter's built-in index card system lets you edit your screenplay and rearrange scenes on fully editable index cards-on-screen! As you develop a new story, you'll be able to quickly write desired scenes, sequences, and plot points on blank index cards and easily shuffle the scenes as the plot and story are fleshed out. Screenwriter even reformats and re-numbers your scenes for you!

 

A Full-Featured Word Processor

Screenwriter is a full-featured word processor which includes dictionary (110,000+ words), thesaurus (80,000 word links), Real-Time Spell Checking with Auto-Typo Correction for basic letter inversion corrections, and full support of foreign characters. 10 levels of Undo/ Redo assures that none of your changes are ever final!


A Cast of Performers at Your Side

Have a live script reading performed right on your computer with Screenwriter's Text to Speech! Assign different male and female voices to your different characters to hear a whole new perspective on your script.

Are you an actor who wants to practice your lines? Simply turn off the voice for your character and the program will automatically pause for your dialogue, letting you play along with the program, practicing with cues and all!


A Virtual Proofreader

Screenwriter's SmartCheck scans your entire script looking for and correcting common formatting errors. You'll never again have to reprint your script to fix errors like extra blank lines or characters who you inadvertently left speaking twice in a row. Go to print and it scans the script, instantly zeroing in on the most common typing & editing errors. It points them out to you (optionally even automatically fixing them!) saving you from wasting paper and hours of your time reprinting pages.

Don't Let Your Old Work Go To Waste

Screenwriter can import and export almost any text document (e.g. RTF, MS Word, Word Perfect, ASCII), as well as scripts written with most other screenwriting programs. And since Screenwriter imports using context recognition, imported scripts are much more accurate than with other script writing software programs


No Writer is an Island

With iPartner Internet Collaboration, Screenwriter allows you and a partner to collaborate on a script live over the Internet. iPartner lets either one of you watch over your partner's shoulder as they compose and edit, allowing the viewing partner to see all the edits and additions as they are made just as if you were in the same room.

Real-time text and voice chat lets you break the distance barrier, without the long distance phone changes! (Click here to listen to ZDNet Radio's story on Screenwriter's iPartner feature.)

 

What's in a Name?

Your characters are unique, and their names should be too. Create countless unique character names from NameBank's huge database of male, female, and last names.


No Clutter

Do you like a typing environment clear of clutter and distractions? Screenwriter 6 lets you customize the look and feel to fit your desires. You can even turn off all Screenwriter's buttons and toolbars to give you a beautiful blank page.

Over 85 Free TV Templates

Movie Magic's new and improved Television Templates are formatted with the correct margins, script styles, act breaks, set lists and character lists for easy 1-key entry, and even include sample text. Get over 85 of the most popular sitcoms, soaps, and episodic dramas, including: Alias; All of Us; Battle Star Galactica; The Bernie Mac Show; Boston Legal; Cold Case; Crossing Jordan; Days of Our Lives; Desperate Housewives; Drawn Together; Entourage; Ghost Whisperer; Heroes; House; How I Met Your Mother; Joan of Arcadia; King of the Hill; Malcolm in the Middle; Monk; The OC; The Office; The Unit; Without a Trace, and many, many more!

Protect Your Work

After your script is finished, protect your work quickly and easily by registering it with Screenwriter's online registration feature. (Windows only)

Ready for the World

Ready to show your script to the world? Screenwriter allows you to save your script in web browser (HTML) and Adobe Acrobat (PDF) formats so anyone with a computer can read your script. You can even publish your script directly to your web site, or to any site on the Web!

Optional Foreign Spellcheck Dictionaries


Danish · Dutch · French · German · Italian · Norwegian · Spanish · Swedish · UK English

 

Calling All Assistant Directors and Script Supervisors

Movie Magic Screenwriter's Production Menu contains an entire suite of production features, allowing you to do everything from locking the script, to inserting or removing revision marks, to production breakdown sheets of your script, to preparing production information for export to Movie Magic Scheduling.

(Click here to read the free Screenwriter Production Bible in Adobe PDF format.)

Full Production Revision

Screenwriter features A and B Pages and Scenes, locked Pages and Scenes with multi-locking, an Automated Revision Draft process, onscreen Revision Draft colors, and AutoRevision Marks which automatically mark all editing changes made after the script has been locked.

Complete Production Breakdown Report 
and Export to Movie Magic Scheduling

Screenwriter's Tagging Mode allows you to go through your script and literally TAG anything in the script as one of over 20 categories ranging from Props to Sound Effects to Stunts to anything else you need. Once anything is tagged, Screenwriter will include it in one of its many breakdowns in addition to exporting that information directly to Movie Magic Scheduling.

Screenwriter generates internal breakdown sheets, and allows you to sort breakdowns by script order, INTERIOR vs. EXTERIOR, Location, Time of Day, and Characters. Production Breakdown Graphs allow easy visualization of character use throughout a script. Screenwriter can even generate Scene Character Lists and Set Lists for TV production!

So why is Movie Magic Screenwriter the choice of Hollywood professionals? Because Screenwriter doesn't just Do It All -- Screenwriter Does It Better. Way Better. Faster, More Reliable, and Easier to use than all the rest. Period. End of Story. Fade Out

  

  


$149.95                       $29.95          

*Try either or both for 90 days.  Not working for you?  Return for a full refund of your purchase price!

About Dramatica and StoryWeaver

What They Do

Dramatica is a tool to help you build a perfect story structure.  StoryWeaver is a tool to help you build your story's world.

Dramatica focuses on the underlying logic of your story, making sure there are no holes or inconsistencies. 

StoryWeaver focuses on the creative process, boosting your inspiration and guiding it to add depth, detail and passion  to your story.

How They Do It

Dramatica has the world's only patented interactive Story Engine™ which cross-references your answers to questions about your dramatic intent, then finds any weaknesses in your structure and even suggests the best ways to strengthen them.

StoryWeaver uses a revolutionary new creative format as you follow more than 200 Story Cards™ step by step through the story development process.  You'll design the people who'll inhabit your story's world, what happens to them, and what it all means.

How They Work Alone

By itself Dramatica appeals to structural writers who like to work out all the details of their stories logically before they write a word.

By itself, StoryWeaver appeals to intuitive writers who like to follow their Muse and develop their stories as they go.

How They Work Together

But, the finished work of a structural writer can often lack passion, which is where StoryWeaver can help.  And the finished work of an intuitive writer can often lack direction, which is where Dramatica can help.

So, while each kind of writer will find one program or the other the most initially appealing, both kinds of writers can benefit from both programs.

Try Either Program Risk Free!

We have a 90 Day Return Policy here at Storymind.  Try either or both of these products and if you aren't completely satisfied we'll cheerfully refund your purchase price.

 
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