For novelists who want the film
Your novel already has the story.
Now give it the format.
Adapting a book into a screenplay isn't rewriting it: it's transforming it, step by step — synopsis, treatment, outline, script. ShotClick has a dedicated editor for each step, and AI that drafts each one. You stay in control of the story.
No card required · Final Draft export included
From book to script in four steps
- 1
Your novel becomes the synopsis
Paste your book's synopsis (or write it fresh) into the Subject document. That's the starting point: the story you already have, in prose.
- 2
AI develops it into a treatment
One click on “Transform into treatment”: the AI rewrites the story in cinematic form — what we see, in what order, at what pace. You polish.
- 3
From treatment to outline
The story breaks into beats: the scenes you need, one per line. This is where you decide what survives the film — the real work of adaptation.
- 4
Every beat becomes a formatted scene
An outline beat becomes a full scene in one click: slug lines, action, dialogue where they belong. Professional formatting, automatic, always.
And if your novel-writing tool is proudly AI-free, that's fine: keep writing the novel there. When it's time for the film, the story adapts here.
Why a formatting guide isn't enough
Formatting takes an afternoon to learn. What sinks adaptations is structure: a novel breathes in chapters and interiority, a film breathes in scenes and images. You need a place where the story can change shape without getting lost.
That's why the four documents are connected: synopsis, treatment, outline and screenplay live in the same project, and every transformation is an explicit step you can redo, compare, undo. With timeline branches you try two paths from the same scene — the book's ending and the film's — and keep the better one.
Questions
- Do I need to know screenplay formatting?
- No. That's the point: you write, the editor formats to the professional standard (Courier 12, indents, caps, one page ≈ one minute). Whoever reads your script won't guess it's your first.
- Does the AI rewrite my novel without control?
- No: every transformation asks for confirmation before replacing the target document, and you decide at every step — the AI proposes, you cut, rewrite, keep. Explore alternate versions with timeline branches without ever losing the original.
- Why not a one-click chapter-to-scene converter?
- Because a chapter converted literally isn't a scene: it's a bloated script. A novel breathes in chapters and interiority, a film in scenes and images — adaptation means deciding what survives, not translating line by line. That's why the pipeline goes through treatment and outline: the AI drafts each step, but you decide the structure.
- How much does it cost?
- Writing is free, forever: full editor, import, export, printing. You only pay for AI actions (credits, with the cost shown upfront) and, if you need them, collaboration or the MCP connector.
- What about when the script is done?
- It leaves the way it's supposed to: locked scene numbers, colored revision passes, Final Draft (.fdx) export that opens cleanly on a producer's desk. And when the day comes, breakdown and shooting schedules are already here.