Story Development

At last, it’s time to take all of your story development and outlining work and turn it into that elusive, seemingly impossible goal: a completed first draft of an original script. In this Learning Series lesson, we’ll show you how.

Planning out your plot will make writing your script a lot easier. In Lesson #4, we’ll guide you through creating a thorough Script Outline – and show you how Celtx can speed up the process dramatically.

Your characters are the most important aspect of your script. For them to be engaging and believable, you’ll have to spend some time with them before going to the page. In Lesson #3 of the Learning Series, we’ll show you how to develop your characters by asking them questions.

What is your story going to say? How is it going to say it? In Lesson #2, you’ll learn how to ground your script by defining your dramatic targets.

What’s in a logline? Well, everything. In this first lesson of the Celtx Learning Series, we’ll show you how to get your scriptwriting process started by distilling your story idea.

In this guest post, professional script reader Alex Bloom offers an insider’s perspective on what people will be looking for when they take your screenplay under consideration. Want to know how to make sure your spec survives the first cut? Read on to find out.

A picture might be worth a thousand words, but uninteresting dialogue can sink your story. Watch this latest video from Project Volare to learn how to make your words count.

Celtx & Project Volare are partnering to bring aspiring creatives a fast, free, six-week crash course in filmmaking – along with valuable prizes from industry leading sponsors (including us!). Want to get involved? Read this to learn more!

Hollywood veteran Brian Levant is using Celtx to introduce first-time screenwriters to the high-intensity world of the television writer’s room. In this interview, we discuss how technology has both changed and failed to change the pre-production workflow, as well what you need to concentrate on when trying to write scripts for the first time.

Happy Halloween from Celtx! To help ring in the spookiest time of the year, we’ve pulled some insights from five of our favorite horror screenplays. Want to write something scary? Start with seeing it done right.