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That’s a pretty expensive pad of paper

February 12, 2007 Formatting, Resources

Reader Andrew sent a link to a company that sells [specially-formatted paper](http://www.everybodyswrite.com/index.html) for hand-writing scripts. Since I almost always write first drafts longhand, I’m theoretically the target audience for the product.

Buying one 80-page pad will cost you $22 with shipping, roughly five times more than the Ampad pads I use. But my pads merely have horizontal lines, whereas the Everybody’s Write pads have a special grid system for lining up various formatting elements. The non-reproducible blue lines disappear when you photocopy them — but then again, non-existent lines disappear just as well.

Do I think these pads are a waste of money? Kind of. But if they help some screenwriters write, I see no reason to mock them. If they were cheaper (vastly cheaper), I’d even consider trying them.

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