For Those who don't know what Celtx is, its a program you use to help create scripts. It recognises scene headings, characters, dialogue etc. and puts everything into the correct format for you. It remembers character names so you dont have to keep on typing the same name, and best of all, it's free.
So heres a quick crash coarse on how to use Celtx...
First off, if you havent already, you need to go to http://www.celtx.com/ and click on the big Green download button. Once its downloaded and you click on the icon, a window will come up welcoming you to Celtx and asking you what project template you want, for the purpose of this tutorial, we will be using Film.
Once you click on film you can start writing straight away, it instantly starts with a scene header, then goes straight to action so you can right what the audience is seeing (ofcoarse if your on Celtx to begin with you already know what all this means).
Personally I rely on dialogue to tell the story, to get a character up simply click on the box that would now say action and scroll down to character, after you have a name when you press enter it should turn straight to a dialogue option, after youve written the dialogue if you press enter again it will take you back to a character option and you can keep a conversation going quite fluently.
In the left hand corner of the screen there is a save button and a print button, to save or print... I dont really know how anything else works just yet... this is the worst tutorial ever..
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