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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide Celtx won't write your script for you, but it will ensure it has the format and features demanded by the film industry. Learn to use Celtx along with insider secrets of screenwriting and script-marketing into the bargain.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2011
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ISBN-13 9781849513821
Length 376 pages
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Obtaining and Installing Celtx FREE CHAPTER 2. All those Wonderful Writing Features 3. Visualizing Productions Ahead of Time 4. Tools for Getting Organized 5. Tooling Up for Scriptwriting 6. Advanced Celtx 7. Writing Movies with Celtx 8. Documentaries and Other Audio-Visual Projects 9. Raising the Curtain on Plays 10. Audio Plays, Podcasts, and Other Great Sounds 11. WAP! POW! BANG! Writing Comic Books with a Punch 12. Marketing Your Scripts List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps Future Development of Celtx Pop quiz—Answers

Time for action - marketing using Celtx files


Okay, back to Celtx. Marketing is where Text (called Novel from Celtx 2.9 on) really helps us out. As we've seen earlier, Text is an unformatted script—in essence, a standard word processor built into Celtx.

We add a Text object to the Project Library by clicking on the big blue Add button to the top left of the Celtx screen, selecting Text in the Add Item... dialog box, typing in the title we want, and clicking on OK, as shown in the following screenshot:

In my case here, I've made a Text document for the first version of my query letter for Portals (you'll go through numerous versions, I do), as you hone and polish the query.

Once the Text document is available, use it as you would Word or any other word processor.

Whenever you find an e-mail address of an agent, producer, or manager to send the query to, just:

  1. 1. Left click on any in your query letter in Celtx.

  2. 2. Use the key combination Ctrl+C to copy.

  3. 3. Open your e-mail program.

  4. 4. Press Ctrl...

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