John August has made a beautiful video explaining why he prefers writing in Fountain over legacy screenwriting apps. He demonstrates writing in Highland, but of course everything he says applies equally to Slugline.
I love that John has taken the gloves off on the issue of legacy "word processing" apps—and the modern apps that mimic them—being bad for writing.
Now Slugline can fuel your writing in more ways than one. Pick up a Slugline mug, notebook, or water bottle today from our online shop.
Run Like Hell is a hilarious feature film in development, inspired by the cult classic video game. As the director attached to the project, I teamed up with producer Adrian Askarieh and Red Giant Films to create this teaser. Step one was writing the script.
I used Slugline of course, and began by borrowing heavily from the wonderful dialogue in the feature screenplay by Max Adams. I don't know what software Max used to write it, but I was able to copy and paste the text directly from the PDF into Slugine. I then began laying in the strange events that unfold just outside our hero's field of view.
I used Slugline's outline view to keep track of the escalation of events, and producer Aharon Rabinowitz used Slugline to add notes to my drafts, often emailing me the Fountain text directly.
Even on a project this compact, Slugline's flexibility, combined with the openness of the Fountain format, made for an easy collaboration across thousands of miles and multiple time zones.
Wanna check all this out? Download the script for the short as a PDF, or in Fountain.