How to tell a story

How to tell a story

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Dear Celtx Androids

You love Celtx and write your screenplays with it. However, you'd like to be more mobile and are impatient with the development of a mobile app for android, like they developed for Ipad. Well, rest easy. I have a very simple solution!

Write your script as a text file obeying all the format rules of horizontal spacing and capitalization, but otherwise writing flush left. No tabs. A script would like look this:

EXT. ROOM - DAY

Joe is on the phone.

JOE
Hey, sweetie, where are you? When you get this--

MARY (filtered)
I'm here! I--

JOE
Mary? Mary!? What's wrong?

Nothing. He hangs up. Worried.

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Get the idea? You can write a text file like this virtually anywhere, with any device. Save it as a .txt, a text file. When you import this into Celtx, it becomes perfectly formatted! Is this liberating or what? Not as sexy as an app but it works.

You're welcome