StorYbook - screenwriter friendly?

Free, novel outliner StorYbook looks more and more screenwriter friendly with each release. The software allows you to track chapters, locations, characters and “strands”. It does not function as a word processor, but is great for planning stories and tracking your progress.
When I first looked at StorYbook, I thought it looked helpful for novelists but [...]

Add another 10 minutes to your day

In a high-paced world where work hours continue to lengthen while free time diminishes, it really helps to have a few short cuts. Here are some tools that I am finding to be quite helpful in shaving a few minutes off my day.
General work tools

PureText
Copies and pastes text “as-is” without any extra Word/Web/Excel formatting
Stickies
Create sticky [...]

Flock

This rat-race, we call life, seems to have an ever-increasing stranglehold on my time. I’ve been trying to find ways to effectively juggle my work, family and writing without negatively impacting on my health or responsibilities. Historically, writing is the first thing to go, since my muse isn’t likely to fire or yell at me, [...]

Online reading and thought

Linked via Writing for the Web, two fascinating articles on how we read online and how it affects our very thought processes:
Lazy Bastards: How we read online
Is Google making us stupid?
I’ll confess that I find myself skimming far more these days than I ever did 8 years ago, when I first had steady access to [...]

Starting with feedback

For those who know me, I don’t think it comes as a big shock that I have a soft spot for new writers. I had my own negative experiences over my writing when I was a young teen, so I’ve always hoped that I could encourage a young/new writer to keep going, rather than throwing [...]

PDF screenplays

PDF screenplays
A new site with the noble mission statement of providing the best quality screenplays, teleplays, treatments and comic scripts for your educational needs. Highly recommended.
* sadly, due to various cease and desist letters and server issues, this particular site is currently unavailable

Poderiffic

I’ve been seeking out more and more podcasts, specifically geared towards creativity, creative blocks and even meditation, in my latest attempts to unblock the ol’… uhm whatever shakra, eye or muse is packed behind a concrete wall.
This weekend brought me another podcast that featured a speaker I had heard once before on The Writing [...]

Of Genre

Writer here, write now is posting an interesting series of posts on Genres.
For some reason, it still makes me want to run out and buy Save the Cat. I tend to mish-mash my genres together, which is why a couple of my spec plans are stalling. I have two movie ideas that both started out [...]

Unknown screenwriter

I’ve mentioned briefly my creative blocks/funk and haven’t really gone further than that. Another writer, however, has opened up about it and encourages you to do the same:
http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/
A really great blog with a depth of information on screenwriting. So if you are an expert on de-Eeyoreing someone, please encourage this writer to keep blogging.

Slow train

My cunning plan to enlist other screenwriters to the “Screenwriter’s workbook” exercise has so far hit bumps on the rail. I simply don’t know enough writers who are a) willing to share a writing process with others, b) don’t find it useful enough, c) too busy. All are valid reasons really, but I was hoping [...]