Sections also solve my longstanding gripe with apps that use Scene Headings as the only measure of a 'scene.'.Thanks to Fountain's Sections and Synopses, we saw how we could visualize story structure with a live, hierarchical outline-eliminating the need to outline in a separate app.We could be the first screenwriting app with no toolbar, because all the formatting happens automatically based on what you type. With Fountain, we saw how the app could be simple-to its core.Fountain was the key that unlocked this formula for me-as well as for my partner in Slug-crime, Clinton Torres, creator of Gradiest. I knew I wanted to simultaneously make something simpler and more powerful than what was out there, but I had no idea how. My itch to build a better screenwriting tool goes back a long time, but I was never sure what unique value I had to offer. Developers seem to be full of ideas for things to do with a screenplay in the last 5% of its life. What's bothered me most is that comprehensive screenwriting software seems designed more for film production departments than for writers. Like many screenwriters, I have a love/hate relationship with the software I use. I even shared an idea of what a Fountain editing app might look like.īut even as the small but wonderful world of screenwriting nerds-and the developers who love/are them- embraced Fountain, I couldn't shake the growing itch to build a Fountain app myself. Last year, I joined forces with screenwriter John August to create Fountain, a plain text screenplay format.

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