Product Review: Celtx
Another writing app that wins some and loses some
by G.N. Jacobs Apparently, I’m the manager/ring announcer of the writing app Thunderdome—“Two enter, one leaves”—because I just deleted Screenplay by Black Mana off my iPhone in favor of Greyfirst’s Celtx. I need the most efficient way to write screenplays, comic book scripts and even the occasional stage play on all my technology. So far, […]
Product Review: Documents To Go
This app won’t write your magnum opus, but might pull off a query letter for it
by G.N. Jacobs Documents To Go by Data Viz has been around awhile (I had it on my Palm Pilot, way back when) and has been a generally solid writing app that does a lot of things well. But, it doesn’t do everything, explaining why, like with many apps, there just ain’t no replacing the […]
Product Review: Final Draft 8
The gold standard for screenwriters
by G.N. Jacobs Final Draft 8 as the latest version in a long line (twenty years at least) of software designed to automate the process of getting our words into proper screenplay format would seem nearly so ubiquitous that pack your bags, fellas, it’s all over but the shouting would be the phrase of the […]
Product Review: Black Mana’s Screenplay App
Black Mana's Screenplay for iPhone is a solid writing tool
by G.N. Jacobs Screenplay by Black Mana is one of those first draft apps that seem to get blown away by later developments (namely Final Draft creating their own iPad app in 2012) and yet hangs on. Realizing my other mobile writing tools wouldn’t ever give me a screenplay that looks like a screenplay, I […]
To Kickstart or Ask Grandpa for the Dough?
G.N. Jacobs looks at the SEC controversy
by G.N. Jacobs Entrepreneurs all over the civilized world anxiously await the results of an ongoing discussion at the SEC about the future of crowdfunding sites like www.kickstarter.com and www.indiegogo.com. Coming on the heels of the small handful of Kickstarter projects that have gone bad and a legal requirement related to the 2012 JOBS Act, […]
