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Adventures in Screenwriting

Fri. September 3, 2010

Tonight I went to celebrate with my writing instructor and friend, Pilar Alessandra, her new book The Coffee Break Screenwriter. If you’re looking to start or finish a screenplay, I highly recommend it. She knows her stuff.

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Yesterday I met with folks from Adobe to go over their answer to screenwriting software: Adobe Story. FIve guys who worked on it were in town from India. And to only further stereotype myself as an LA writer, I asked them to meet me at Literati to discuss. The product is pretty cool, though. I’m already a fan of most things Adobe. The first Little CEO was cut on Adobe Premiere, even though the projects that followed were done on Final Cut. I’m also a fan of Photoshop, After Effects (which I’m slowly learning), Flash, Flex, and Soundbooth is pretty badass. Anywho, from what I saw of Adobe Story, it’s a faster, simpler version of Final Draft that lets you easily collaborate with other writers. Worth a look-see if you don’t want to drop the cash like I did on Final Draft. It lets you import Final Draft files too, so no one has to know….

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Welcome to the blog of Los Angeles-based filmmaker, writer, comedian Sari Karplus. Several years late on every trend, Sari (pronounced like Mary) has fancily joined the blogosphere. Hopefully soon she'll go on to discover other new fads like how to speak in first person. Until then, please enjoy the ride.