A very exciting project has been happening over at LA Observed, our venerable blog-about-town. Screenwriter Eric Estrin wanted to see what would happen if a group of strangers collaborated publicly on a single screenplay about this, our City of Angels.
He posted a premise, loose guidelines, and an open invitation.Nineteen writers answered the call and a story was born.
The result, Right of Way, is …
For those of you collaborating on projects from afar, here’s something new to consider. Scripped Writer claims to be something akin to Google Docs meets Final Draft, allowing writers to compose and save entirely on the web. It’s remote, it’s free, and, presumably, it’s the sort of thing that could facilitate collaboration.
As revisions are precious and as I haven’t tried this, I’m merely …
iScript is a service that provides writers with full audio readings of their screenplays by actors for a cool $225. Send your script and payment, get an mp3 in return. Why? Well, if you don’t read aloud to yourself (as you should, shame on you) then this might be the ticket. You may be a director without time to sit through a table reading. Perhaps you want to allow that potential financier to experience the world of your script without …