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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources
Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps
Future Development of Celtx

Chapter 11. WAP! POW! BANG! Writing Comic Books with a Punch

Comic books, graphic novels, comic strips, and so on are modes of widely popular method of storytelling.

We, comic fans, know that writing for comic books is very close to writing for the movies. In fact, for a writer, marketing scripts for the comics is easier and has less competition than trying to sell a script.

In this chapter, the following topics will be covered:

  • Banging out a Comic Book script: How to write scripts with Celtx's Comic Book editor.

  • Comic Book elements: Page, Panel, Caption, Character, Balloon Type, Balloon—how to use, when to use.

  • Navigating, deleting, and reordering pages: How to move around, delete, or reorder pages.

Using what you've learned previously and the new material in this chapter will show you how to write comic book scripts with a BANG!