OTHER: Screenwriting wth a Chromebook

Greg_E said:
Got distracted today and found this:
https://www.writerduet.com/

Says it works fine on a chromebook, might be worth investigating.
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Looks interesting, but I'm wondering why the "Pro" version is a one-time price of $89, while the "VIP" version costs $249 per year, and apparently the difference is "20 hours of personalized support". Seems to imply people have a LOT of questions and are willing to pay $249 a year to get them answered. I find that curious.

I also see that it does not have any kind of script breakdown feature, which Celtx does. But again, I don't know if Celtx runs on the Chromebook.
 
$249.00 / 20 hours = $12.45 / hour. I bet this software is written by a small team, maybe even just one person, which is more common than I would have guessed before I got into the software industry.

As for 20 hours seeming like a lot, I bet he's just trying to think of the worst-case scenario. Some non-technical people can be high-maintenance and take 20 hours over the course of a few weeks to get fully up and running. At the same time, a successful screenwriter might look at $249 the way I look at $9.99.
 
combatentropy said:
$249.00 / 20 hours = $12.45 / hour. I bet this software is written by a small team, maybe even just one person, which is more common than I would have guessed before I got into the software industry.

As for 20 hours seeming like a lot, I bet he's just trying to think of the worst-case scenario. Some non-technical people can be high-maintenance and take 20 hours over the course of a few weeks to get fully up and running. At the same time, a successful screenwriter might look at $249 the way I look at $9.99.
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But it's an ANNUAL charge. To me, that means they expect you to have enough questions or problems to justify that difference in cost on an ongoing basis. Which implies to me that the software is either difficult to use or buggy.

Just an impression.
 
combatentropy said:
As for 20 hours seeming like a lot, I bet he's just trying to think of the worst-case scenario.
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So he's charging everyone on the basis of the worst-case scenario? Wouldn't it make more sense to arrive at a median price between the best-case and worst-case scenarios? Or better still, just charge by the hour to whoever actually needs support?
 
It's a free trial. Just try it.

Software prices seem to go up with nicheness, not niceness. Some specialized companies pay tens of thousands a year for very specialized software that is less complex than some of the software you can download to your phone for free.
 
there's one thing I would like to ask you about fountain, because that's basically my concern about this writing method that I would judge otherwise smart and compelling:

if you have to use code markup (similar to html language) tags this means it's no more a WYSIWYG application, is it? And this implies, and that's the point, that you can't really monitor with accuracy your word disposition on the page, because inserting new characters disrupt and messes up the whole page: a word appearing at the end of the page could jump to the next one after inserting some .tags. and then come back on the right page when previewing!

So you can't really tell where your pages or paragraphs end and how your words appear on the page unless you preview, am I right? Does this happen or did they consider a fix so that this problem does not occur?

I guess this may be a little frustrating, may be even more than detaching your fingers from the keyboard and operating the mouse, from time to time ..
 
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