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Bring your idea, characters, treatment, or outline. Rough Draft Maker helps you develop the story and create an 85–110-page screenplay rough draft, ready for you to rewrite.
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The proof is on the page.
This is the opening of Hot Streak — a real screenplay rough draft made with Rough Draft Maker. A page from a sample draft, not a mockup.
HOT STREAK
FADE IN:
EXT. WEEKLY-RATE MOTEL - DAY
A digital pharmacy sign across the boulevard reads 116°.
It is 11:08 A.M.
Heat shimmers above a row of cars whose windshields wear silver shades like surgical dressings. An ice machine rattles beneath a handwritten sign: NO ICE.
FULTON REYES, 52, comes down the motel stairs carrying a three-legged terrier under one arm. His left knee makes the last step a negotiation.
The terrier, SKIP, wears a blue cooling vest and the expression of a landlord.
Fulton sets him in the narrow shade beside a vending machine. Skip noses toward the sunlight.
FULTON
Hold it. Inspection.
Fulton presses his palm against the exposed pavement. Holds it there a beat too long, then wipes his hand on his shorts.
FULTON
Failed.
The cooling vest is dry. He empties the last of his water over it while a TOURIST wrestles a suitcase toward the office.
TOURIST
That dog is spoiled.
The opening of Hot Streak — an 86-page screenplay rough draft, written with Rough Draft Maker.
Your idea
Start with a sentence, a character, or an outline.
The blueprint
Answer a few questions & approve the plan.
Your rough draft
A complete draft built on your blueprint — paced like a storyteller.
Listen: how it works.
Get past your writer's block.
You have the idea. The characters, the world, the scenes you can already see. Then comes the long, often miserable middle — the vomit draft — where most ideas die on the blank page.
Rough Draft Maker gets you through that stretch, so the creative fun returns where it belongs: in the rewrite, with your energy intact, making it great.
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What you receive
One real offering. No menu of pretend options.
One feature screenplay rough draft
Typically 85–110 pages, built on the blueprint you approve — structured, paced, and ready for you to rewrite.
- Download as PDF and Final Draft (.FDX)
- Your account saves your work — return anytime
- One-time pass — $97. No subscription fees.
POWERED BY NARRISTOTLE™
Ancient storytelling wisdom. Modern creative intelligence.
One integrated methodology combining story structure, character transformation, setups and payoffs, and cause and effect.
Not a wrapper. Not a prompt you could paste into a chat window. Not a skin over an AI.
Narristotle is a story brain Matt built and refined — version 1.1, with an addendum — 13 editorial points and 32 governing rules that shape every draft: structure, character transformation, setups and payoffs, cause and effect. The AI does the typing. The brain does the storytelling.
Read Matt's full story
Built by a screenwriter, not a software company. Matt Allen has written for over 25 years — a WGA screenwriter, a panel veteran, and for nearly four years the guy taking arrows for saying out loud what Hollywood was afraid to hear: AI is coming for the blank page, and the craft has to meet it, not hide from it. He was worried. He still is. He built Narristotle anyway — because the discipline of WGA writing and the new tool don't have to be enemies. They can be a marriage.
Matt ran it against his own ChatGPT window. Our drafts came out better. That's the difference between a prompt and a brain.
A prompt is not a method.
Co-Founder · The System
The System Behind the Craft
Narristotle is two things at once: a working screenwriter's craft, and a purpose-built software system that runs it.
Steve Smythe
Speaker, author, consultant · 25+ years
Steve brings over 25 years in technology — as a speaker, author, and consultant — to the architecture of Narristotle. He built the system itself — the logic, the programming, the smarts — and that system is not AI. It's what takes Matt's beats and rules and turns them into an effortless, smart system that holds them on every page, start to finish.
Matt and Steve created Narristotle side by side — pairing Hollywood story craft with purpose-built engineering so every draft you make carries the experience of a working screenwriter.
Your stories stay yours.
We claim no ownership of your stories, characters, or scripts.
We do not use your work to train AI models.
Read the full picture on our Trust & Safety page.
What writers say
Writers, unstuck.
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Coming Next
Novel Maker and Children's & Chapter Books are on the way, along with more formats — each labeled with its real status, not a promise.
HOLIDAY LAUNCH SOONNovel · 26 chapters
Novel Maker
From your premise or outline to a 26-chapter novel with locked character continuity.
Coming soonChildren's · Chapter books
Children's & Chapter Books
Age-calibrated story worlds, lovable characters, and chapter books for young readers.
Coming soonMemoir · Life stories
Autobiography & Memoir
Turn your life stories, personal notes, or recorded memories into a structured memoir.
Coming soonBusiness · Authority book
Business & Authority Books
A book is the new business card. Turn your expertise, talks, or methodology into a nonfiction book.
Coming soonCookbook · Specialty guides
Cookbooks & Specialty Guides
Structured culinary collections, story headnotes, and themed lifestyle books.
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Questions
Before you start.
Do I own my idea and my draft?
Yes. Your idea and your draft are yours — to edit, rewrite, export, and finish in your own favorite tool. We just help you get past the blank page.
Is my work used to train AI?
No. Your work is never used to train AI models.
Is this cheating? Will it sound like AI?
It's a rough draft, built to be rewritten in your voice — that's the job. The storytelling comes from a working screenwriter's method; the AI does the typing, and you do the rewriting.
What if the draft isn't right for me?
Then it has done its first job: you're rewriting instead of staring at a blank page. You shape the blueprint before the draft is generated, and every page after that is yours to change.
What format do I get?
PDF and Final Draft (.FDX) — the files are yours to keep, so your draft lives in your tools, not ours.
Can I use it for a novel and a screenplay?
One pass covers one complete screenplay rough draft. Novel Maker is coming soon — your free account holds your work either way.