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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Collaborative writing!

I have been thinking of ways to involve friends and other interested script writers to collaboratively write a story/screen play. Though there are some subtle challenges like who all to have involved in this process etc the advantage would be in crossing geographic, time and any such boundaries. You can definitely get the work done lot faster.
See this blog article http://madebyloren.com/github-for-writers where the author points out that a group of mathematicians collaborated to write a book using GitHub! (see http://math.andrej.com/2013/06/20/the-hott-book/)
Looks like the author of that blog created a collaborative writing tool: Penflip - GitHub for Writers

Now while that above can be too radical there seems to be something closer to us: https://story.adobe.com/en-us/index.html
I am yet to start exploring Adobe's Story but some coworkers said that this is really useful.

There is a web based solution too: https://writerduet.com

While you are at it you might also want to think about putting together some sort of an ownership split agreement as in http://www.wga.org/uploadedFiles/writers_resources/contracts/collaboration.pdf

Have you collaboratively written stories/scripts? Did it work? Did you use any software? Does this really add value in your writing? Share your experience with us.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Happy New Year!!

Oh! I was not planning to blog today but it just so happened!

Here are a bunch of audio books that you can listen to when driving around or when you don't feel like reading a book yourself...

Keep writing buddies - if you feel that you are not able to kick start your creative juices or ifyou merely want to have a portfolio item rather quickly then here is a crazy cool idea to accomplish just that :) http://www.roberttwigger.com/how-to-write-and-get-published/2009/10/22/how-to-write-a-film-script-fast.html
Some tips to help you along: http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/screenwriting-tips