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This program automatically formats your script, putting character names, scene headings, and action in the appropriate places. It also does a good job of gues sing what you want once you've started writing: filling in a character's name a fter you've hit the first letter or automatically attending to details such as pagination, MOREs, and other script-writing tasks.

Program creators added templates from actual television-show scripts, so writer s can get a glimpse of formatting for everything from Friends to King of the Hi ll, an invaluable tool for writing spec scripts or just peeking into the workin g mechanisms of Tinseltown. There are 50 partial scripts in all. Extra bonus--u se this program to name your baby after you're done writing a masterpiece. Movi e Magic Screenwriter contains the most comprehensive name bank we've ever seen: first names from Abramo to Zola, and every surname imaginable.

This program also allows online collaboration, via voice or text, and can publi sh scripts on the Internet. There's a production-scheduling function and revisi on options should your work make it into production. Finally, one old-fashioned touch that we found rather charming in this high-tech, "does everything for yo u" screenwriting program: it can print directly onto index cards (provided) for writers who prefer to order their scenes like they did in the good old days be fore computers did everything for us. --Anne Erickson