CeltX

Recently, having been thinking about getting back into it for *cough* years, I’ve been thinking that it really is about time I start off on getting some of my writing ideas down on paper (OK, on hard drive), rather than letting them float round in my head, at constant risk of being lost/forgotten/amended. There are two main reasons for this – namely 1) It’s about fucking time and 2) I’ve got something in there at the moment that is radical and could be seriously fun to write – along with some added impetus from seeing how Tom is doing, and doing a bit of proof-reading and cliché-avoidance on his work.

The main stumbling block for me is the classic “Where the hell do I start?” (and any answers of “at the beginning” will be soundly ignored) And, in my case, additionally “What format am I going to do – book, screenplay, both?”. Hell, I’m even somewhat tempted by the idea of writing a radio play. Go figure.

Among other things, I’ve been thinking about using Final Draft as a writing aid/tool, but coming up against another minor stumbling block, this time of “Do I really want to spend £130 or so, and then not actually use the thing?”.

But last week I came across a different tool, CeltX which may actually be quite handy – it certainly gets me past the “spending out” block – and provides some interesting tools along the way. I’m going to give it a go anyway, and just see where it takes me.

This is a subject that may get a lot more stuff written about it over 2008, be warned…