Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

Abstract

This book is about dreams: yours, mine, all sorts of creative people's dreams. Today's inexpensive yet powerful software, computers, cameras, and so forth create visual productions—whether they are movies, audio-visual, audio plays, stage presentations, and more—and now bring them within the reach of most of us. Here's the secret for turning an amateurish mish mash into a sharp professional piece people will pay you money for—write it down. Script it. In that aspect, Celtx makes dreams come true. Writing screenplays—especially the free part—is what first attracted me to Celtx a few years ago. However, Celtx is much more than just script writing software! Here are just a few of the many things you can create with Celtx automatically formatted to industry standards: