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So I’ve been trying to write some scripts for various projects, but have been procrastinating because I have to dig up my copy of Final Draft. If you’re not familiar, Final Draft is basically just a simple word processing software but explicitly for writing screenplays. It does all the movie formatting for you. I love, love, writing scripts and formatting them and all that, it’s such a stupid simple pleasure.

I kept saying, why the hell hasn’t Google Docs made formatting template stuff, where you can format screenplays in it and collaborate. The issue being I can write in my Final Draft formats but the file format can only be opened with a Final Draft program or viewer.

Well I don’t remember how I stumbled upon this, but:

Scripped Writer is a free web-based script writing software application you can use right in your web browser. Unlike other screenwriting software, Scripped Writer is built specifically with the needs of the writer in mind. That means it has all the functionality you need without the clutter of features you’ll never use.

Scripped Writer is a Free Screenwriting Software

I showed this to my friends in shock, and one actually replied saying this one was better:

Zhura provides the most advanced online screenwriting tool in the industry, plus the ability to connect with writers around the globe. On Zhura you can work on your own projects, work with friends in private groups, or collaborate with other writers in the public community.

Zhura - Make it together

Because it has collaboration! So it’s basically google screenplays :3

I can’t wait to try it. Anyone else use these or have any experience with them?

Pretty heavy-handed and too long but the point gets across…

Generate your own Vladimir Propp Narrateme outline using this handy dandy generator!

Wicca 201 — Oral Tradition - Expansion

Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members’ minds and expectations. If a trope gets used too much, then it becomes clichéd. The word cliché means stereotyped and trite. In other words, dull and uninteresting.

Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms

A lot of ‘no doy’ stuff but interesting to see lists of it all in one place. A good resource.

So I got this really good book a while ago, from a suggestion of this piece of pastry I know, Muffin. It’s a really good, inspirational book. It combines the basic foundations of drawing with general artistic brainstorming and free-thinking. I would say it’s more suited to people who haven’t really ever flexed their creative parts of their brain, but if you feel a bit dried out and have done that stuff at one point, it’s really a nice refreshing take.

Lots of random inspiration, slappin you around and stuff, getting you to quit with the procrastination and develop some good habits if you’ve let bad ones develop.

One of the suggestions it had was something called an electron fast. I believe he adapted it from another person or concept or something. The point of his electron fast is to remove yourself from anything that would take your attention. TV, Movies, but also things like books, etc. Once you’ve done this you’ll be able to appreciate how all of these things steal your time away and distract you and make you think about being places and doing things other then where you are and what you need to do.

I think I have a good grasp of these things, but it made me think. I’m going away to New Mexico Once I set foot on the southwest soil, I’m going on an electron fast of my own. No computatores, no internetting, and then as little other ‘technology’ as possible. I have a few books I want to read, and a book/journalything or two to write in.

I have been so damn busy at work and at home with freelance crap, I just need a damn break.

CREATIVE LICENSE, THE: GIVING YOURSELF PERMISSION TO BE THE ARTIST YOU TRULY ARE