r/Indianscreenwriters

Hey everyone,

I’ve been writing for 6 years, and I’m genuinely curious why we’ve collectively agreed that "good enough" is a clunky offline UI or a web app that lags after 100 pages.

I’m a developer/writer, and I’ve spent the last year building a tool for my own workflow because I was tired of jumping between 5 different apps just to visualize a script or do a production breakdown.

I wanted to see if others feel the same friction, or if I’m just overthinking it:

1. The "Visual" Gap: Does anyone else feel like a wall of text isn't enough to pitch anymore? I built an integrated AI engine that storyboards my pages as I write so I can show, not just tell. Is that actually a "must-have" or just a "nice-to-have"?
2. The Breakdown Headache: Does anyone actually enjoy manual production tagging, or do you just wait until the script is finished to deal with that mess?
3. The "Browser Lag": For those using web-based editors—does the performance hit on long scripts drive you as crazy as it drives me?

I’m currently testing a workspace that solves these (zero lag, integrated storyboarding, auto-tagging), and I'm looking for a few "power users" to break it and tell me where I'm wrong.

I'm not looking to sell anything, I just want to know if I'm building a "faster horse" or if writers actually want a complete production studio in their browser.

What is the biggest "deal-breaker" for you in an editor that hasn't been solved yet?

Me and my team just started our film making journey and for creating more films we need more team and we've already created such platform for creators so and want know is anybody interested in cinematography, writting, acting, anything related to it pls do comment!!!

Hello guys,

I am currently writing a horror film (spec) . Can anyone please suggest me any horror film which has open world?

Like characters are not in a haunted house, not in a haunted jungle, haunted hotel, etc?

They are not captive in a place with the ghost. They can go office. Home. Anywhere!

Also, my film genre is horror/mystery. So can anyone please suggest few movies where there is mystery also that is revealed dramatically.

Thanks in advance!

I am new in the area of screenwriting and pitching and this is going to be my first pitch deck. The first draft I have prepared is looking perfect and crisp to me, however the draft is only 4 episode long. Obviously the length of each episode will increase massively when the synopsis will be turned into a full length screenplay. But my question is, can I keep that 4 episode format for the pitch deck? Or alter it to 6 to 8-episode format?

Not the SWA registration but the Government one.

Hey, I’m a writer who writes stories and screenplays. I recently made a small discord server for writers to talk, share ideas, give feedback, and help each other improve.

We already have a few writers there, and if you write fiction, screenplays, short stories, or anything creative, feel free to join.

If anyone’s interested, feel free to comment or DM me.

I want to start writing my script but idk and don't have the right app for it. Can anyone suggest me some good scriptwriting apps

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I’m a writer working on fiction and screenplays and I’m building a small community for Indian writers.

The goal is simple:

* share scripts/stories for feedback

* discuss ideas and writing techniques

* connect with other writers (fiction + screenwriting)

* possibly collaborate on short projects

* become friends with each other

This is meant for beginners and intermediate writers. No pressure, just a small active group to improve together.

Just DM me and ill add you.

1. Two rookie journalists (ML & FL) stumble upon a breaking story about a family keeping 10 innocent kids enslaved in their house basement and break it on Social media which goes viral. The whole media jumps upon the news and the family is termed monsters. By the time police arrives, no kids are there as kids have already escaped. Without any proof, only one family member is arrested and rest are released. The arrested one keeps pleading he hasn't done anything but no one listens. After some months, he unalives himself in the prison. And at exactly the same time, the whole family unalives themselves in their own home. The ML and FL realize that maybe things were not what they seemed and go into the home where mass suicide take place. The door closes automatically and they are trapped inside the home by resident spirits. The leads are forced to relive the past years of the family invisibly. It's revealed that the elderly grandfather in the family was an acclaimed scientist who had interest in occult. On studying forbidden books, he found out about a species of cryptids who take the form of human kids and torture their human victims. When the deaths in the city start showing the signs of the cryptids' presence, the grandfather tells his family about it and enlists the family members to capture cryptids before they could cause further harm. So throughout the years they capture the cryptids in children form and keep them imprisoned in the basement as even the grandfather doesn't know what to do with the cryptids. Then these rookie journalists stumble upon a tip that the family is keeping children enslaved and all went downhill and taking advantage of the mayhem, the cryptids escape. The resident spirits then kill the leads as spirits were of the people who were killed by the cryptids but their families were saved by the grandfather. Meanwhile, the cryptids out side are eyeing another victim to kill.

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2. A compassionate, efficient female IPS takes charge in a remote small town where a serial killer has terrorized the population. The FL gets nightmares about bullying in her high school. On investigating, the FL finds out the serial killer kills only bullies or those who torment the weak after torturing the bullies. The FL one day manages to catch the killer who then says I know what you did with your best friend. In flashback, a shy, timid girl takes admission in the high school. When other classmates start bullying her, teenage FL beats them up to save her. Then they both become best friends. FL then has an edgy, goth look with piercings and all. The new girl starts having crush on a handsome boy so other people start bullying her. When FL arrives, the new girl expects her to save but instead FL is revealed as the leader of the bully gang. FL is furious despite she beat up her own gang for bullying the new girl, how could the new girl like a boy instead of her? The FL starts bullying the new girl daily in hopes that the new girl either stops loving the boy or commits suicide. The new girl commits suicide. The school helps hiding the bullying and torture to protect their school image and FL decides to become a good human from then on. Now the FL starts fearing if her best friend is not really dead and has returned for revenge. But it's confirmed her best friend was dead indeed. Then FL confirms about her best friend's parents who are still grieving and in no position to take revenge. Then FL investigates the boy her best friend loved only to find out he has already moved on and is married and lives abroad. Finally the FL realizes the serial killer is also like her. He just wants to kill people. He only kills bullies to gain sympathy of people so that he's not caught and can continue his killing. When the serial killer kills FL's husband just to tease her, FL tortures serial killer's GF who was an accomplice and shows its live telecast to the killer. The cat and mouse begins with FL fully embracing her dark psychopath side and ultimately she manages to kill the serial killer.

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3. A woman starts talking to a boy 10 years younger than her through a wrong number phenomenon and they both fall in love with each other. After an year, they decide to meet at a place. They both arrive at the same place at the same time but can't meet each other. A quarrel breaks out between them where the boy insists he did arrive at the designated place at the time but mentions waiting in a building that was pulled down 30 years ago. The girl investigates and finds out the guy she was talking to was a college student in 1960s who died due to ragging. They both were talking due to a time glitch. But the girl doesn't tell the boy on the phone that he's going to die.

In present timeline, the woman encounters a casanova five years younger than her and feels a pull towards him. So now the woman is in a love triangle with the boy in 1960s who's going to die soon and his reincarnated version in present timeline (unbeknownst to anyone).

4. The vampire hunter ML is killed in a fire while fighting the vampires after his fellow vampire FL lets his hand go in anger. The ML before dying is fed upon by a vampire but instead of dying transforms into a vampire, losing his previous memories.

After a time leap of 5 years, the ML with a different identity meets the vampire hunting group and FL again. FL is first perplexed on seeing his face, but later decides he's some other person after seeing him hunting a criminal and drinking his blood. As memories start coming back to ML, ML has to grapple with working as an undercover agent to destroy the vampire community that killed his parents without letting FL know the truth.

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5. In late 1800s, FL makes a living as a fraud spirit medium claiming she can speak to spirits to install peace in the minds of suffering Indians whose family members were given death sentence by Britishers. But when she starts seeing the spirit of a freedom fighter who was hung by Britishers, she is confused if she had actually awakened the gift of talking to spirits. The handsome and intelligent spirit of dead freedom fighter guides the FL to free imprisoned freedom fighters, dismantle the plans of Britishers while simultaneously killing sadist Britishers who torture Indians. What FL doesn't know the spirit she's talking to is an alive human, who happens to be the twin brother of the dead freedom fighter and who was separated from his family in childhood during Kumbh Mela