The first draft

TSR builds the first complete screenplay draft with you. Never a novel in, a finished screenplay out.

What this draft is, and what it isn’t

It is: a complete first-draft feature screenplay of your novel, in industry format, faithful to your story, with every scene traced to your pages.

It isn’t: a finished screenplay, a promise of a sale, an option, representation, a production or a placement.

TSR adapts your novel the way a screenwriter would, and shows you every choice before a page is written.

Before we write, you’ll see the adaptation plan: the structure, what’s cut, what’s combined, and any scene the film needs that your book doesn’t have. You approve it, or change anything in your own words.

What you must keep, and the meaning of your ending, never change without your yes.

Length, measured — never chased

90 to 120 script pages when your book supports it, counted from FADE IN to FADE OUT on the PDF. Length is measured after writing, never chased, and a draft is never padded.

If a draft comes in short, the order of repair is your own material first — scenes and dialogue of yours that were left out — then narrated passages turned into scenes, then a scene the film needs, shown to you first in your Adaptation Plan. Never padding.

Where a human screenwriter adds the most

We say this plainly, because it is true. A working screenwriter could take this draft further in ways this room doesn’t: notes from producers and a director, rewrites for a budget or a cast, and the many drafts every produced film goes through.

Your Screen Brief names, for your draft, where that help would matter most.