FluidScriptr — Novel to Screenplay Adaptation Tool | Tin House Press

Novel → Screenplay · Try 10 pages free

Turn your novel into a screenplay.
Without losing what makes it yours.

FluidScriptr reads your entire book before it writes a single scene — building a Story Bible of your voice, characters, and arcs — so the screenplay it produces is faithfully yours. Your dialogue, characters and structure carry over intact; the action lines are written fresh, because prose doesn’t have any. Not a summary. Not a rewrite. A true adaptation.

Convert 10 Pages Free See pricing — from $99

Upload your own chapter. No card, no account — just your email so we can send you the finished screenplay.

Full novel No chunk limit

.fdx Final Draft ready

10 pages Free to try

Upload your novel PDF or DOCX — full manuscript, no chapter limit

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Story Bible builds automatically Voice, characters, arcs, and themes mapped first

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Screenplay written scene by scene Every line anchored to the Bible — your voice stays intact

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Export producer-ready Fountain, .fdx, or formatted PDF — opens in Final Draft

What FluidScriptr does

Built for one thing first: adapting your book.

Most AI tools chop your novel into pages and process each in isolation — so chapter three doesn’t know what happened in chapter one. Characters drift. Voice flattens. What comes out reads like an imitation of your book, not your book. FluidScriptr was built to solve that specific problem. Screenplay clean-up and manuscript enhancement come along for the ride.

01 Main product

I have a finished novel

Upload your book (PDF or DOCX). FluidScriptr reads the whole thing, builds a Story Bible of your characters, arcs, and voice, then adapts it into an industry-standard screenplay — scene by scene, anchored to the Bible throughout. For novelists shopping IP, screenwriters doing spec adaptations, and producers evaluating book options.

Novel → Screenplay

I have a screenplay to clean up

Already have a draft? Upload it and get correct Final Draft formatting, tightened structure, and a clean pass on pacing and dialogue. Still your script — just sharper.

Screenplay → Polished Screenplay

I want to enhance a manuscript

Working on a novel that isn’t done? Get a structural pass on pacing, dialogue, and prose — before you commit to a full rewrite. Or start from just an idea: six guided questions and FluidScriptr builds the manuscript from scratch.

Manuscript → Enhanced Draft

Why the adaptation sounds like your book

It reads your novel before it writes a single scene.

Adaptation goes wrong when a tool reads chapter by chapter, guessing what came before. Character voices flatten. Subplots drop out. Themes get quietly replaced with genre defaults. That’s the reason most AI screenplays feel generic.

FluidScriptr works differently. Before it writes a single line of screenplay, it builds a Story Bible — a complete map of your characters, arcs, voice, tone, and themes. Every scene it produces is anchored to that map, so nothing drifts.

Think of it the way you’d think of a great adapter: someone who reads your entire novel, understands what makes it yours, and then translates it — faithfully — into a screenplay. That’s not replacing your creativity. That’s respecting it.

Core engine Story
Bible

Character arcs & relationships

Author voice & tone

Scene pacing & structure

Themes & motifs

Narrative continuity

See it in action

Watch a novel become a screenplay.

See the full generated sample (PDF)

Prefer to read it? See a page of a novel beside the screenplay it produced — real output, nothing edited.

What you get

A screenplay you’d actually send out.

Industry-standard screenplay first — with manuscript polish and screenplay clean-up as bonus outputs from the same Story Bible engine.

Screenplay Primary

Industry-standard format from your novel. Proper sluglines, correctly-margined action, character cues, parentheticals, dialogue, and transitions — Final Draft compatible so it opens cleanly in every producer’s tool.

Fountain .fdx PDF

Screenplay clean-up

Upload an existing draft and get correct Final Draft formatting, tightened structure, and a clean pass on pacing and dialogue. Still your script.

Fountain .fdx PDF

Manuscript enhancement

Your novel-in-progress, polished. Tighter pacing, sharpened dialogue, cleaner structure — submission-ready in Times New Roman, double-spaced, standard margins.

DOCX PDF RTF

The flow

From your novel to a producer-ready script in five steps.

Upload

Drop in your novel — PDF or DOCX, full manuscript.

Bible

Story Bible builds from your book — voice, characters, arcs mapped.

Adapt

Choose screenplay output and set your target page count.

Convert

Scene-by-scene adaptation, anchored to your Story Bible throughout.

Export

Download as Fountain, .fdx, or PDF — Final Draft ready.

Pricing

Pay per manuscript. No subscription.

Buy a conversion pack once, use it whenever you’re ready. Every tier includes the full tool — Story Bible engine, all export formats, and included generation credits. No API key required.

Before you buy anything

Try it on your own book first.

Upload a chapter and we’ll convert the first 10 pages free — real output from your actual manuscript, not a demo reel. Read it, judge it, and decide from there. No card, no account. Just an email so we can send you the file.

Convert 10 Pages Free

Single

^$99

1 manuscript · one-time

1 novel-to-screenplay conversion
Screenplay clean-up + manuscript enhancement included
All export formats (Fountain, .fdx, DOCX, PDF, RTF)
Story Bible engine included
Included generation credits — no API key needed
Optional: bring your own Anthropic API key for unlimited use

Buy Single — $99

Things writers ask.

What’s the catch with the free 10 pages?

There isn’t one. Upload a chapter, and FluidScriptr converts the first 10 pages using the same engine paying customers get — same Story Bible pass, same screenplay formatting. No card, no account, no trial that quietly starts charging. We ask for your email so we can send you the finished file, and so you can find it again later. Ten pages isn’t a screenplay, so it won’t adapt your book for you — but it’s more than enough to see whether the writing holds up before you spend anything.

Does FluidScriptr work for full-length novels?

Yes — it handles complete manuscripts with no chapter limits and no naive chunking that loses continuity. The Story Bible is built from the whole book before any screenplay is written, so voice and character stay consistent from the first scene to the last. If you don’t have a manuscript yet, you can also answer six guided questions to generate one from an idea, or upload existing pages to enhance.

How faithful is the adaptation?

As faithful as the source material lets it be — and it is worth being precise about what that means. Your dialogue carries over close to verbatim wherever it plays on screen, and the Story Bible locks your characters, voice, arcs and themes before generation starts. What gets written fresh is the action and description, because a novel has no action lines to convert — a narrator’s interior observation has to become something an audience can actually watch. So expect your story and your dialogue back, plus new connective prose in the stage directions. You also get to review and edit the Bible before conversion — the creative decisions stay with you.

What is the Story Bible?

The Story Bible is a structured analysis of your story — characters, arcs, voice, tone, and themes — built before any output is generated. Every scene FluidScriptr writes is anchored to this map, so nothing drifts and your voice stays consistent from page one to the end.

Which output formats does FluidScriptr support?

Screenplays export in Fountain, Final Draft (.fdx), and formatted PDF. Manuscripts export as DOCX, PDF, and RTF — Times New Roman, double-spaced, one-inch margins — submission-ready from the first export.

Do you store or train on my manuscript?

No. Your uploads are never retained and your work is never used for model training. With included credits, requests pass through our servers to Anthropic but are not stored — we keep only anonymous usage counts. If you use your own API key, it’s stored only in your browser and requests go directly to Anthropic. Either way, what you write stays yours.

What AI model does FluidScriptr use?

FluidScriptr’s conversions are powered by Claude Sonnet (Anthropic) — the same top-tier model either way. Every license includes monthly generation credits, enough for roughly two full projects a month, no setup required. Want unlimited generation? Add your own Anthropic API key in the app and pay Anthropic directly — typically a few dollars per full conversion.

Ready to adapt

Your novel deserves a faithful adaptation.

Start with 10 pages of your own manuscript, free. If the screenplay reads the way you hoped, pick the pack that fits — a single manuscript, a three-pack, or the 12-conversion Studio tier. Pay once, no subscription. Your book stays yours. FluidScriptr just makes sure the screenplay does too.