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My latest project, Steal My Script

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  From the project site, www.stealmyscript.com:

Steal my script was inspired by the one, true Jonathon Coulton, who, back in 2005 started his own "thing a week" ritual.  Basically, he wrote and recorded a new song every week.  Then he became super famous and people like John Kellogg Hodgman rode the coattails of his success all the way to infamy.
May we have done unto ourselves as has been done unto others.
Steal my script is a similar venture.  Except it's not singing, it's screenwriting.  And I'm not writing a feature length screenplay a week.  That would be madness.  Nor am I writing a short every week.  This still isn't my full time job.
I'm writing a scene, or a sequence if you will, and sometimes a short.
Every week.
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I'm a little nervous about it to be honest.  I have no idea if I can keep up with that kind of deadline.  2 - 10 pages per week of content good enough to make publicly available is a shit tonne of writing.

Worst cast scenario I fail miserably and kill myself.

Hope to see you there.

-b

(here's the faq if you're interested)

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I love me my @Celtx Studio!

I know everyone says everything about Final Draft, but to me it's the Microsoft of software... Bloated and fugly and a necessary evil in an empire of forgotten dreams.  Or Movie Magic Screenwriter.  I've never used that one, but come on.  Compare the websites and tell me which one says productivity and singularity of focus and which ones say clutter, clutter, clutter.  (Great argument, right?)

Everyone (or all the Twitter friends I have who are into screenwriting) says, "If you ever want to be anything in this industry, you need to use Final Draft.  Celtx is fine for learning, but that's all it is.".  I say that's dumb and maybe half true.  If someone hires me based on a writing sample and they say I have to use Final Draft, fine, done.  But just know that they will be hiring me based on a writing sample written using Celtx.  

Because I love me my Celtx.

http://celtx.com/

John August and some screenwriting advice from a veteran

Part One

Part Two

Check out his blog. or his IMDB Profile

Some credits....

  1. The Nines (2007) (written by)
  2. Corpse Bride (2005) (screenplay)
  3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) (screenplay)
  4. Big Fish (2003) (screenplay)
  5. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) (screenplay) (story)
  6. Alaska (2003) (TV) (writer)
  7. Charlie's Angels (2000) (written by)
  8. Titan A.E. (2000) (screenplay)
  9. "D.C." (1 episode, 2000)
  10. Go (1999) (written by)
  11. God (1998) (writer)
Thanks John for taking the time to share.  Thanks also to MakingOf for putting this together and posting online.