write for you services
Scripts, Speeches & More
We offer a range of writing services to our clients. These services are for larger projects that require a studied approach and skill. For smaller projects, we offer done-with-you services in the form of coaching and live cohorts.
Writing & Producing Corporate and Documentary Films
Our scripts work for the screen, the ear, and the mind. They blend purpose with production.
Writing for the screen means writing for the ear. What matters is how you blend images with words, ideas with the point.
It’s not like writing for the page.
Scripts demand attention to the context of film and video—the footage, the movement, the lighting, the sound, and the graphics added in to enhance clarity. Everything works together.
When you write the script in isolation, you lose that flow…and that opportunity to engage your audience and their brains.
Types of Scripts
Everything comes from narrative purpose and story development.
We’re here when you are ready to shape your story, develop a concept, design an approach, or gain clarity before developing your script. It’s not until we have all of that confirmed that we begin writing.
OUR WORK:
Our work ranges from corporate to nonprofit, the US military to government agencies, and small business to entrepreneurs.
The forms may change. Story never does.
We write:
- Doc-style and Voice-Over
- History
- Instructional
- Educational
- Informational
- Inspiring
- Fundraising
- Brand stories
- Presentations
- Tributes
- Overviews
- Lobbying
- Issue-based
- And more
We believe scriptwriting develops from a narrative and storytelling foundation. They need to work in both in content and sound. This means diving into the purpose behind them and the anticipated result from their creation.
Everything in the script comes from the context around it—the throughline, the point, the message, the visuals, the soundbites, the talking points, and the words themselves.
What Makes Scriptwriting Different
Writing for the screen requires different skills than writing for the page.
The words, sentences, and sequences need to support and enhance what’s shown. It’s not enough to share facts. Film demands stronger hooks and story logic, and rhythmic sentences and ideas.
This is writing for the ear, not the page. It demands different skills to support the visuals without repeating them, to establish a throughline that drives the video forward, and writing that engages the audience without losing purpose.
This is production-ready writing—scripts designed to film and voice.
Video is not a fixed product. It moves and changes. It depends on the script for everything, from directing to producing to the results achieved.
There’s an old adage in the film industry that holds true: If it’s not in the script, it’s not on the screen.
But too many organizations blow their budget on film equipment, graphics, and production elements, deciding to grab someone from within to draft the script. This is a mistake.
The script is where film production begins. With a plan. A direction. A point. With a script that allows the message, images, writing and impact to happen.
Services provided
Our services begin with concept development and production planning. It starts with a script treatment that locks in the approach and goal. We follow that with a draft script to check direction. Then we end with a shooting script that dictates how the production proceeds.
Figments & Fables offers a range of services beyond scriptwriting and producing. We also partner with production studios to provide skills beyond our own.
Our Offerings:
- Concept Development
- Production Planning
- Treatment Development
- Research
- Interviews & Interview Prep
- Scriptwriting
- Screenwriting
- Script Doctoring
- Collaterals (website copy, marketing materials, and ancillary products)
- Producing
- Directing
Production Offerings through strategic partners:
- Pre-Production (including location scouting, casting & crew, permits, budgeting, and more)
- Production (including directors of photography (DPs), lighting, sound, action, and more)
- Post Production (including editing, graphics, animation, captions, music, sound editing, rough cuts, fine cuts, distribution, and more)
You can’t cover a confused message with slick footage and pretty graphics or poor writing with music.
Call or email for a scripting quote.
Call: 703-740-9708
Email: Susan@figmentsandfables.com
Scripts need stories to connect
This is writing for the ear, not the page. It demands different skills to support the visuals without repeating them, to establish a throughline that drives the video forward, and writing that engages the audience without losing purpose.
This is production-ready writing—scripts designed to film and voice.
Voiceover and doc-style scripts available
In Doc-style videos, we prepare interview-ready questions that help draw out the story and bring the purpose to the page.
Films can’t be made without a screenplay. Don’t make videos without a refined script.
SPEECHWRITING & PRESENTATIONS
Speechwriting requires mimicry—capturing the speaker’s voice, tone, style and Ideas on the page.
But speeches don’t live on the page. They must be spoken.
That requires flexibility of language, and a deep sense of rhythm, cadence and flow to come to life.
It’s not enough to string words together. Those words must match the speaker in voice and delivery.
How we begin
I begin with a conversation and questions.
Then I listen to recordings of the speaker to capture their style, tone, delivery, and patterns.
Once I have an idea of how my client sounds, I start developing the topic.
This may mean digging into research or reviewing provided materials. I’ve done it both ways.
Then it’s time to find the story that will hold the speech together.
I build speeches on narrative techniques and storytelling devices. It’s the only way to hook an audience and keep them.
Then it’s time to establish story logic and build a speech that makes sense.
So whether you are speaking at a conference, to a board of directors, employees, or giving a TED-Talk, the steps that ensure a successful speech remain the same.
Hook them. Keep them. Modulate your tone, pitch, and cadence. Build to a crescendo. Allow for quiet spots. End with a call to action—to change, become, feel better, understand, or move.
Are you ready to say what’s on your mind? Ready to develop your ideas, share your news, inspire your audience? Email or call for a quote.
Call: 703-740-9708
Email: Susan@figmentsandfables.com