So what's the deal with writting scripts? It really isn't that hard. It's like writting a book, with a twist. I'm always getting questions about how to write a "correct" screenplay. Well there is a simple answer.

A) There isn't one.

    I know this sounds like a bullshit answer, but in all actuality it's quite true. I've read thousands of scripts and each one was different. I think people put a little too much emphasis on how to write the "proper" script. Sure there are certain guidelines that MUST be followed, but people have really waxed the issue far too hard.

    When I read a script, I do that; read the script. Now granted if it's in a horrid font and everything is scrunched up it makes it a pain in the ass to read and will eventually sway me away from it, But with that aside, I read for the story. I watch the movie get made in my head, I don't go: "Well, that should have been in caps!".

    There are hundreads of screenwritters out there, and every single one of them wants one thing: to see they're words transformed into images on a large screen in front of an audience. Does the formatting of the script play into if it is produced???

No.

    So stop worring about script format, and start worring about story format.
 

Matthew R. Williams