Creative prose writing with Celtx
Writers Unblocked
© Sandor Jackal, Fotoliaa
Whether you plan to publish a comic or a manuscript, you need to manage a volume of material. Enter Celtx, which combines a database and text editor into a comprehensive tool.
When you are ready to sit down and write that book you always think about, you will probably want some help getting organized. In this article, I will examine Celtx [1], a tool that helps you compose comics, radio dramas, movie scripts, novels, or plays.
Installation
Installing Celtx is easy, and it works right out of the box. In the download section of the Celtx project page [4], you will find program packages for Windows, Mac, the Eee PC, and Linux.
After downloading Celtx, you can unpack the tarball in the shell by typing tar xvzf Celtx.tar.gz, then type cd celtx to change to the newly create directory. When you get there, type ./celtx to launch the writing tool.
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