Every screen

This is the actual program.

Not mockups, not a designer's impression. Every picture below is a screenshot of WritersBox running, with a real script and a real world in it.

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01 · The page

A real page, counted the way a printed one is

12pt Courier, sixty characters across, fifty-five lines down, US Letter. The number in the bar is the number in the PDF, because the same arithmetic does both. Eight formats, each paginating by its own rules.

The WritersBox script editor showing a screenplay page in Courier, with scene
headings, action, character names and dialogue at their proper indents. — Two keys do the formatting. Enter starts whatever line comes next, Tab changes what the line is. There's nothing else to learn.

Every other screenwriting program gives you the page and stops. This is where the rest of it lives.

02 · The world

Hang your own map and pin it

Upload the map you already have, double-click to drop a pin, and pin a place, a person, or another map. A pin on the continent opens the city. A pin on the city opens the castle floor.

The WritersBox atlas showing a coastline map for the film Saltblood, with six
named pins: Rooksferry, The Harbour Mouth, The Ledger House, Candlemarch, Roke
Yard and The Salt Flats. — The map is one you supply. WritersBox holds it, pins it, and links every pin to the entry behind it.

A world entry in WritersBox laid out like an encyclopedia article, with boxes
headed How it works, What it costs and What it can't do. — Twenty-six kinds of entry across seven families.

The web of connections in WritersBox, entries drawn as tokens joined by labelled
lines showing how each relates to the others. — Every connection you've named, drawn both ways round.

03 · The people

Characters, and the families they come from

A dossier asks what they want, what they need, what the wound was and what they're hiding. Then the tree works out how they're all related, from lines you already wrote.

A character page in WritersBox with a photograph and sections for what they
want, what they need and what the wound was. — Six groups of questions, all optional, and your own photographs.

A family tree in WritersBox for Elin Vane, showing three generations with
Cassius and Meriel above, Elin in the middle, and Corin and Ysolde below joined
by a marriage line. — Grown from the relationship web. Name a line "her mother", "his son", "married", and the tree understands.

An era timeline in WritersBox showing events across a custom calendar. — Events become a timeline on your own calendar. "Third Age, year 302" means whatever you say it means.

04 · The saga

Two orders, kept apart

The order you tell it's how the audience meets your stories. The order it happens is when the events occur. Write one prequel and those become different lists, and treating them as one is how continuity goes wrong.

The franchise board in WritersBox showing titles in one universe, with toggles for
the order you tell it and the order it happens. — One shared world, one cast list, one set of entries, across every title.

05 · Out of the door

Paperwork that can't disagree with the script

Breakdowns, reports and sides are worked out from the words every time you open them. Nothing is stored, so nothing goes quietly stale after a rewrite.

The production screen in WritersBox showing scene counts, page counts, day and
night splits, and breakdown sheets listing each scene with its cast. — The cast fills itself in from the names above the dialogue. You never tag a person.

06 · How it looks

Eight themes. Same screen, click through them.

Riso is the one it opens in: warm paper, flat inks, no gradients anywhere. The other seven are there for people who want the room darker, or brighter, or somewhere else entirely.

WritersBox in the riso theme: warm paper, flat inks and no gradients.

You can also build a theme out of a photograph, and the text size adjusts throughout without breaking the page.

07 · Everything else

The rest of it

Bring your scripts over

Opens and exports Final Draft .fdx, plus .fountain, .docx and plain text. Drag one in and your original stays exactly where it was.

It reads itself aloud

A table read in your computer's own voices, so you hear where a speech runs long instead of guessing.

Revision colours and draft comparison

Keep a copy of a draft and every line you change afterwards wears a * in the margin, right through to the file you send out.

Beat sheets and outlines

Real pages, not notes stuck to the side, with prompts that ask the right question rather than handing you an empty box.

A query tracker

Who has your script, when it went, and what came back.

Type @ and it links

Mention a name anywhere and it becomes a door to the entry behind it.

The WritersBox home screen showing projects, a franchise, films and a series, with
a list of what you were working on last. — The front door: everything on the go, and whatever you touched last.

Everything above is real

Every screen on this page is in the program today.

No mockups and nothing coming soon. If you want to know what's being built next, that's written down honestly too.

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Bring an .fdx in and see how it handles your pages. That will tell you more in ten minutes than any of this will.

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