Speaker 1: Can you use Final Draft 11 for book writing? Simple answer, yes you can. But would you want to? There are a couple of things that you should know about Final Draft when it comes to book writing. The version I'm using for the purpose of demonstration here is version 11. Final Draft has a couple of templates for book authors of which you're most probably going to use the novel template. The novel template is basically just like any other script document, just the formatting is a little different. You have the template pre-filled with some sample text and if you go to the formatting elements you see that the formatting is set to general. All the other kinds of formatting elements wouldn't make sense for anything that is not a script. The font is set by default to the same Courier Final Draft font as the script templates. You can change that of course, I just suppose that you might want to use a different font for writing a novel since there is no necessity other than with movie scripts to use a 12-point Courier type. As far as exporting goes, you can export in any of the possibilities you also have with the Final Draft scripts. You can export in PDF and also as a Final Draft document and a bunch of other formats. If you would want to export to Microsoft Word you would choose the rich text format. So yes, you can write a novel in Final Draft because Final Draft is a text editor and theoretically you could write a novel in any text editor you like, even on the Notepad or in TextEdit on the Mac. The problem is that for writing novels Final Draft gives you nothing else than a pretty basic text editor and that's it because all the other bells and whistles are made for movie scripts. You can't use the navigator because that only works for scenes and scenes need a slug line element which you don't use in novels. The notes feature only works on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, something that is excusable in a movie script where a paragraph is four lines maximum. But in a novel, how would someone know to which part of the half-page paragraph maybe the note belongs? Next, you don't have styles. Final Draft doesn't work with styles like Heading 1, Heading 2 and so forth because it's for movie scripts. It's not made for writing novels in mind and that's exactly the problem. Yes, you could somehow fiddle with the formatting elements and make them usable for you somehow, but even then you wouldn't have styles. So what Final Draft did was cram the novel template in there somewhere to make it appear it's for novelists too, which is an assumption on my part, but they don't give you the tools that really help you. I bet, and to be honest I didn't check that out, but I bet you can get a lot more features for novelists if you go to LibreOffice, download the free text editor and go with that. Because what Final Draft is, if you strip all the screenwriting functionality away, it's a very simple basic text editor, which is fine for screenwriters, don't get me wrong. And I have to say, I'm not a novelist, but I just can't imagine that it would be a satisfying experience to write a novel in there, especially considering the price. Now, the novel template might be useful for someone if you have Final Draft anyway and you like the formatting of the template and you don't care about all the stuff you don't have. Okay, great, go ahead, nobody is stopping you. But I personally would never buy Final Draft in order to write a novel. There are way better solutions out there for a way better price, or even free. So if one of you actually has written a novel in Final Draft and you would do it again, let me know because I'd be it'd be really interesting to have that conversation.