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