While we writers mostly are of a breed that adapts slowly to change around us and draws comfort and creativity from rituals and habits, there is no denying that we now live in a digital world that knows the typewriter mostly through nostalgia websites. An abundance of information is readily available at our fingertips and with email, chat, voice over IP, forums, newsgroups, rss feeds all accessible on a multitude of devices, the internet has severely changed the way we communicate. But will it change the way we work? The way we write?
The world wide web offers as many possibilities for writers as it offers distractions. For seemingly every step of the process, from idea to polished script, there are tools that are supposed to help managing the work flow, organizing ideas or thoughts, and even correctly outlining your script. Some might be useful while others cost you more time to learn and use than you could possibly save.
For almost as long as I am a writer I have tried out software tools that are supposed to help with the process. Through the years the software has moved from floppy discs to CDs to internet downloads to residing entirely in the cloud, as they say today, running on a web server somewhere in the world for you to use wherever you have access to the world wide web.
In this blog, lovingly subtitled “Screenwriting 2.0″ by, well, me, I will share tips and tricks for the tools I use on a regular basis as well as review new services as they become available and I get a chance to try them out. The posts will most certainly be interspersed with observations on writing and/or the web in general to keep you and me entertained during webapp and writing dry spells.
Hopefully I can point you to a lifesaver or two, or at least save you some time in the process. Stay tuned…