Writing day!
I haven’t posted much about it here, but I’ve started work on a longer comic. I say that not really knowing how long it’s going to be, just that it’s going to be longer than my normal comic length which usually is about 3-4 pages.
I made the decision that I’m going to try and have a rough script for the thing finished by the end of this week. Not necessarily a good draft but something that I can look at as a whole and figure out which parts suck and which don’t.
At any rate, I’ve been working to that end all day. It’s a very exciting, and to be honest, foreign process for me. I decided to type it all out first, using a traditional hollywood movie script format, since my random notes filled with unattributed dialogue were doing more harm than good. This started my hunt for good script writing software.
Scrivener was the first program I turned to, and to be honest, if I had the money I would have gone with it right away. But I don’t have $40 to spend right now. It would be worth it, but I don’t have it. Sadly, as of today, Scrivener has no good way to work on your writing when your away from your Mac. The developer says an iOS version may come someday, but not right now.
That led me to Celtx.
This is what I spent all day in, and I’m pretty happy to have found it. It’s not as elegant as Scrivener which might be why it seems to be suffering from feature bloat, but it does all the formatting and scene organization I need for my work. The best part? The desktop app is completely free.
Added on top of that the $9 universal iOS app for iPhone and iPad which syncs for free with the desktop version and I’ve punched out more pages of a script than I have in years.
