One of my mentors told me that ADOBE story would be a great tool to use in my writings... But, I don't like it. I love to just write on Microsoft Word and manually formatting everything. ADOBE STORY is a little too confusing for me.. I don't know... Is it just me?
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Actually, it doesn't... I feel more comfortable writing like that... I may look into Final Draft, but I like my way for now... I guess it's like how QT prefers to write in his 3-subject notebook... lol
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To each their own, but Final Draft 8 will save your life and sanity.
Problem with Adobe Story is that it's cloud based (in beta), does not incorporate basic WORD functionality, disregards prose as the basis of all good writing and is being debugged by Indian programmers who have a rigid pov concerning world literature and creative story... in my opinion. Of course, they're programming for the big picture of film making and the film making industry. Nevertheless, at the root is the story and, to me, they just leave 'story' elements as something that will create itself without a helping hand. I hounded these programmers to incorporate features of StoryMill, Scrivener and even basic synonym functions (also word find-replace). And then there is cost of final product (are they at final version yet?) The interface is smooth and impressive, but it will probably be packaged with Premier, Soundbooth, In Design, etc and cost an arm and a leg or more. I went around and around debugging AS with them and then discovered Celtx... and life was so easy then(although Celtc kind of sucks too). Suffice to say I'm sticking with StoryMill and prose writing
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Whatever works works, I guess. I like Final Draft 8 also. But one thing for sure you absolutely must have backup like carbonite etc. My computer recently crashed and everything was gone! Real bad feeling. But after my computer was returned to me, I simply logged on, entered a few comands, and in a flash my screenplay was back.. Me very happy with that.
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Writers who do not use proper grammar are not writers. Anyone who doesn't care about grammar and only pays attention to the story, probably doesn't have good grammar themselves. Do you think if you sent out a resume and cover letter with typos, you would get hired? Nope. Your spec script is your resume.
Thanks guys for sharing your opinions... I have really been enlightened on some things.
Grammar would depend on the characters in a story I imagine, and that wouldn't always be "good grammar"
Amazing information here! I learned a great deal... not the least of which is to proofread my own posts before I hit the blue button. Thank you, all!