Questions
Reading
- What is Page 16?
- Waiting on positioning copy.
- Do I need an account to read this?
- It depends on the link. Some open straight into the whole script, some ask you to sign in first, and some let you read the first fifteen pages and then ask. The link decides, and the writer chose the link.
- Why am I being asked to sign in?
- Because the writer wants to know who read their script. That is the honest answer and it is the whole answer. Nothing is being sold and reading costs nothing.
- Can I change how this looks?
- Yes. Three typefaces, five text sizes, light and dark, and a choice between continuous scrolling and discrete pages. Use the Aa button while reading. Your choices are remembered for every script you open.
- Which reading typeface should I pick?
Courier Prime is the default and the screenplay convention. It is what a writer expects their pages to look like.
Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono comes from the Braille Institute and is drawn for low vision: its letterforms are shaped to be told apart from one another rather than to look consistent with one another.
OpenDyslexic weights the bottom of each letter so its orientation is unambiguous. Some readers find this easier. The research on dyslexia-specific typefaces is genuinely mixed, and several studies find no measurable speed benefit over a well-set standard face, so we offer it as a choice and make no claim about it beyond that.
All three are open licensed. Courier Prime and Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono are on Google Fonts; OpenDyslexic is at opendyslexic.org.
- Will it remember where I got to?
- Yes. If you are signed in it follows you between devices, so you can start on a laptop and finish on a phone. If you are not, it is remembered in this browser only, because that is the only place your session exists.
- Why can't I copy or download the script?
- Because it is the writer’s unpublished work, and they chose to share it rather than publish it. We will not pretend this stops anyone determined: it raises the effort, and the writer can see that a copy was attempted.
Sharing your own work
- Why upload a FinalDraft file instead of a PDF?
- It saves you time. A FinalDraft file says what every line is, so there is almost nothing to check. A PDF does not, so the parser has to work it out, and you have to confirm it got the answer right. Across our test set, 42 scripts in 73 had dual-dialogue the parser could not be certain about from a PDF. From FinalDraft files, none did.
- Why do I have to check the script before sharing it?
- Because it is what makes the reading experience good, and because it happens once per version rather than once per reader. Approving fixes your page boundaries, and those page numbers are what every share link, every reader ’s place, and all of your analytics refer to from then on.
- Who can read my script?
- Written alongside named links.
- What do the three link types mean?
- Written alongside the link screen.
- Should I turn on the watermark?
- Written alongside the watermark.
- How do you keep my script safe?
- Held deliberately. This answer will describe what is actually deployed and nothing more, so it waits for the storage and access work to finish rather than describing what we intend to do.
- What happens when I delete a script?
- Written alongside deletion.
- Can I take a link back?
- Written alongside the link screen.
- What happens when I upload a revision?
- Written alongside versions.
- Someone asked me for access. What now?
- Written alongside access requests.