"It made me a better writer," said Kevin Falls, an executive producer of The West Wing, in a reference to script formatting software, which he credits with freeing him to focus more on story structure and content.Īt the same time, Falls and his colleagues are quick to note the limits of such digital assistance. If so, when credits roll at the end of a film, how much applause belongs to the human writers and how much to their gizmos? Can software help turn you into a high-octane Hollywood honcho? Can stardom be bought in a box? Most professional screenwriters bristle at any suggestion that their talents can be enhanced by computers, beyond their use for typing and formatting scripts.īut Schulman suggests that there are times when resorting to software like IdeaFisher, "this helpful little guy who has a million ideas and suggestions," can be a bit like having another writer in the room. Tom Fontana ( Oz) has three Emmys but no computer. Kelley ( The Practice) and Bill Lawrence ( Scrubs).
A handful of Hollywood writers still put pencil to legal pads, including David E.
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