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Collaborative notes with PDF annotations
Posted on 19-Sep-08. Filed in Uncategorized. Comments (5)
We’ve posted plenty about how much we love Celtx (did we mention yet that 1.0 is available?). It’s a great tool for collaborating on scripts online and organizing projects. Sometimes though, Celtx has its problems. One such problem is the easy ability to overwrite a project while you and your screenwriter are working on the script [...] -
Cool Saturday Links
Posted on 09-Feb-08. Filed in Gaming. Comments (0)
Once I’m only working one job I’ll be able to write here more often. Getting home from a full-time job and then working for another 3-4 hours is, tough, you know? Anyway, excuses are weak, so here are a few things you mind find interesting: UAE’s very scary drug laws — BoingBoing.net Pretty frightening. And now off the [...] -
Author who slammed Mass Effect: “I recognize that I misspoke.”
Posted on 26-Jan-08. Filed in Follow-up, Gaming. Comments (0)
One wonders if she’d have admitted her ignorance if angry gamers hadn’t destroyed her book’s rating on Amazon. But it’s good in any case that she tried to correct her mistake in an interview with The New York Times. Cooper Lawrence, author of “The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace With Your Inner Overachiever,” appeared on “The [...] -
The Internet in ‘96
Posted on 25-Jan-08. Filed in 0 Link Blog. Comments (0)
A compilation of huge corporations’ websites in 1996. It’s awesome how much the web has changed since then. Just imagine what another 12 years of progress might bring. via Reddit -
EA has been invited to discuss Mass Effect on Fox News
Posted on 25-Jan-08. Filed in Follow-up, Gaming. Comments (1)
According to the MTV Multiplayer blog, Fox has said that EA (the new owner of BioWare, developer of Mass Effect) has been invited to appear on ‘Live Desk With Martha MacCallum’ to discuss the controversy over Mass Effect’s sexual content I’m about to say something potentially controversial myself: Just because you invite the slandered party onto [...] -
Fox News talks Mass Effect — Lies shamelessly [Updated]
Posted on 21-Jan-08. Filed in Follow-up, Gaming, Rant, Silly. Comments (3)
Surprisingly enough, they get it all wrong. No doubt due to the controversy stirred up by Kevin McCollough, who’s since apologized for misrepresenting the game and gamers, Fox News decided to tackle the issue of sexuality and Mass Effect. Games journalist Geoff Keighley does an admirable job of trying to set the liars straight, but he’s outnumbered. [...] -
Writing Tip #3: Research — It feels like you’re working
Posted on 21-Jan-08. Filed in Pre-Production, Screenwriting, User-Generated Content, Workflow, Writing. Comments (1)
I don’t believe in writer’s block. Maybe, maybe, a very limited number of people have suffered from a real inability to write anymore. Like a loss of that specific brain function, which sounds like a much more serious problem than a lack of inspiration. Writer’s block, for most people, is merely a deficit of motivation and a [...] -
The Creator-Audience Singularity?
Posted on 19-Jan-08. Filed in General, Participatory Culture, Silly. Comments (0)
As the line between creator and audience becomes more and more muddled, that is to say, cooperative and indistinct, is there some singularity out there where creator and consumer become indistinguishable from one another? What would that look like? Or is the participatory culture a fad? Is the much-heralded “conversation” a real thing, or merely an extension [...] -
Writing Tip #2: Print it out.
Posted on 13-Jan-08. Filed in General, Pre-Production, Screenwriting, Workflow, Writing. Comments (0)
Here’s another simple tip to make your editing a little easier: Print it out. That’s right, print it out. Get a pen and mark up your document. Editing onscreen is hard, and you’re likely to miss so much. When reading off of a screen, we read quite fast. We have to, because there’s so much information that we [...]
