Professional screenwriting
Format-perfect pages, chat in real time, leave notes for your collaborators, track versions — and even add music. A mentor who reads everything and writes nothing. Every word on the page is yours.
Free forever for writing. No card, no generator, no fine print.
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Live from a real writers’ room: PIANO BAR by San Yvin & Trà My Hickin — written 100% by humans, in Hotplot.
The room
Built by a fed-up screenwriter who wanted writing with your friends to feel new again — not like wrestling decades-old “industry standard” software.
Pin a song to a scene — in point, out point, fades. It plays as you scroll past, so you read your pages the way the film will feel.
Write the same page at the same time — and talk about it right there. Chat heads, DMs, presence. No exports, no email chains.
Select any line, leave a note. Soft highlights, cards in the margin — feedback that lives where the writing lives.
Save named versions, compare drafts, restore anything. A bad rewrite never costs you a good idea.
Bring any script in — PDF or Fountain — and export industry-perfect pages back out. Your work is never locked in.
Co-writers, readers, producers — one email and they're in the room, whether or not they have an account yet.
The mentor
Thirty years of story departments in his bones. Sal reads your whole script and remembers it. He pins notes to your lines, teaches craft when the moment earns it, knows the films your story is in conversation with, learns your taste and your level, and asks the question that unlocks the scene. Generous, blunt, and on your side.
Pricing
Writing is free forever. You pay for the room and the mentor’s time — and the first 200 writers lock in half price for a year.
Fair-use limits on mentor conversations keep the lights on; the meter is always visible in-app. Cancel anytime.
Leave an email, get a page. That’s the whole funnel.
Free forever for writing. No card, no generator, no fine print.