LaTeX.org

What I wanted to do, was do creative writing with LaTeX, more specifically the art of screenwriting. I highly doubt I can make the next Citizen Kane, but I can still make something cool. The formatting is very specific, which I felt I would have very tight control over it using LaTeX.

https ...

I was going to derive from article as a base. Other packages/classes I've seen online use article, so I thought I should do that as well.

Thank you Stefan, now, is cls all I truly need? Do I truly require a drv or sty files just to make a class mostly for my own personal use with sprinkles of documentation to clear up any ambiguity with the macros, maybe make a detailed separate .txt file to explain everything and anything the user ...

Have you thought about using vim or emacs? Emacs has yasnippet and vim/neovim has multiple snippet extensions. Both are very customizable. Just offering the suggestion if you haven't considered it yet.

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't see the last part you didn't want to go through the effort of setting up ...

I've decided to dabble in the art of making a LaTeX class (if one has reason to suggest I should make a package instead, I'm all ears) because I want to have more refined control over how the contents of the output document are created by pdflatex. Now, is a dtx file overkill if I don't really ...