Screenwriter resources for those of us trying to become one

[The Alpaca Herder]

Looks really cool. Reminds me of what iNews wanted to be. Back around 2002 I was working for a local Fox station, KTVU, and TechTV...

You worked with Mr. Laporte?

[heaven_on_mars]

You worked with Mr. Laporte?

Yes, I worked with Leo and the entire TSS gang. After a year with TSS, I moved over to Extended Play which became X-Play. It was odd moving there and then Morgan Webb moved to there for the development of X-Play.

Leo is a good guy. I enjoyed working with him. After the studio shoots with live audiences he was usually very good about saying high to people and signing autographs. Yoshi and Patrick Norton were very cool. I did not get much time to spend with Kevin Rose, but it is mind bending to me to think he is going to be or is a multi-millionaire now.

[TighGetsPunchedALot]

amazing, thanks for the celtix program, it is great. I screwed around with hacked versions of sophocles and final draft, but as they were hacked, I had limited success in the finished product. This seems much better, since it is free and all. love it.

[TighGetsPunchedALot]

frak, i did just find one small annoyance with it. No ability to import files Now I gotta retype all my stuff from final draft to edit it. oh well, still good.

[heaven_on_mars]

frak, i did just find one small annoyance with it. No ability to import files Now I gotta retype all my stuff from final draft to edit it. oh well, still good.

Did you try the classic copy and paste into routine? I know the formatting maybe lost, but at least you would not have to retype everything.

[The Lonely Toaster]

frak, i did just find one small annoyance with it. No ability to import files Now I gotta retype all my stuff from final draft to edit it. oh well, still good.

Check out their forum, support page and the top of their Project Central.

For questions on program usage, see the Celtx Q & A forum thread.

And concerning your specific issue, I think this might help.

[dxf]

It's not a direct resource, and they're a little old-school, but William Goldman's two Adventures in the Screen Trade books are totally essentially reading on the subject. Homes wrote The Princess Bride, Butch Cassiday and the Sundance Kid, and other flicks you may recognize.

[heaven_on_mars]

One of the writer exercises that I heard was the notion of doing Fortunately and Unfortunately stories. It is basically one time you say something like "Fortunately, Larry could repair himself" and then "Unfortunately, Larry's repair database only had real toasters data, so his head is now a functional toaster: and then "Unfortunately, Larry's toaster head had radiation in it, so the pop tarts placed in it became flesh eating monsters."

You get the idea. I was just wondering if anyone thought it would be worth doing a thread wear anyone wanting to work out their creative improve mind could try to help keep the story going?

[The Lonely Toaster]

One of the writer exercises that I heard was the notion of doing Fortunately and Unfortunately stories. It is basically one time you say something like "Fortunately, Larry could repair himself" and then "Unfortunately, Larry's repair database only had real toasters data, so his head is now a functional toaster: and then "Unfortunately, Larry's toaster head had radiation in it, so the pop tarts placed in it became flesh eating monsters."

You get the idea. I was just wondering if anyone thought it would be worth doing a thread wear anyone wanting to work out their creative improve mind could try to help keep the story going?

Sounds even more fun than the The three wrod at a time story--BSG style thread.

And just look to the expanded Three Word Story, The Story so Far (Re-imagined) for proof that there is talent for longer form wordplay.

[heaven_on_mars]

The three word thread is good. The Story so Far is very good.

I guess I can start the Fortunate/Unfortuantely thread and see what happens. It may bomb or maybe some of the talent floating around these boards will step up for a go at it.