New software that works when you are connected is being offered free: check out Zhura
(www.zhura.com), a company that offers script-writing software free as long as you are
online. OK, that is a disadvantage if you happen to be in a blackspot where you can't
get online, but they tell me that will change. And the software is Web 2.0, i.e. it
is designed so that writers working together or a script editor working with a writer
can collaborate on the same script and all changes are automatically tracked.
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Media Coverage
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UK Writer - You can beat them by joining them May 27th 2008
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Creative Screenwriting Magazine - Alone With the Crowd May 1st 2008
Zhura.com offers a way to post an idea, treatment, scene, work-in-progress or completed screenplay for comments and feedback. Among other nifty innovations, it lets users set up a personal page with a photo, location, favorite genres, favorite movies, favorite music, etc. In effect it's a kind of MyWorkSpace for screenwriters.
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WBZ CBS Evening News - Web Site Offers Screenwriters Chance To Make Stage April 11th 2008
Zhura.com has teamed up with New England's best known improv/sketch comedy Troupe, Improv Asylum, who will perform the best scripts onstage in a show called "You Wrote It Live." Joyce Kulhawik reports.
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The Boston Globe - Sketches go from the Web to the stage April 11th 2008
A little more than a month ago, Jessica Dusak had never thought about writing sketch comedy. Tomorrow she will see her first sketch performed by some of Improv Asylum's best actors in front of a theater audience. more stories like thisHer sketch is part of a show called "You Wrote It, LIVE," so named because all of the material is user-submitted on locally owned screenwriting site Zhura.com. Improv Asylum and Zhura launched their collaboration a month ago, soliciting scripts to be uploaded to the website. Dusak found out Monday her sketch, "Therapy Sessions With Mom," made the first cut."I had no idea that I was actually a finalist until today," she said Monday night. "But I've been having the best day of my life ever since." -
The Metro - Call it iProv Comedy April 11th 2008
Improv comedy is going high-tech. Well, at least higher tech than drunk people yelling suggestions from the audience. Boston's Improv Asylum has been working with Zhura, a free screenwriting tool that provides aspiring writers with an online community to share their material. The results will be presented Saturday, with "You Wrote It: Live."We're taking the strength of the Internet, this massive, global creative community, and we're pairing it up with the strength of live theater," says Zhura founder Eric MacDonald. -
Screen Magazine - Zhura And Improv Asylum Offer Aspiring Writers The Chance To Write For A Live Sketch Comedy Performance On April 12th March 26th 2008
In a pioneering initiative, Zhura, a developer of Web-based scriptwriting tools, has teamed up with New England's most prominent improv sketch comedy theater, Improv Asylum, in a partnership where - for the first time ever, aspiring screenwriters from around the world now have the opportunity to have their material performed professionally and live on stage in a performance called "You Wrote It, Live." This will be a first-ever performance featured in Boston , but it will also stream live from the Web for access from around the globe. -
The Metro - New Web site caters to undiscovered writers March 3rd 2008
Eric MacDonald says there’s a huge group of undiscovered writers out there looking for a way to transform their weekend projects into professional scripts — and to do so not in solitude, but instead with the help of writers just like themselves.
Blog Coverage
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Silicon Calley - Zhura - A step in the right direction May 15th 2008
The portability, document sharing, and the edit-tracker, are all very useful. But what interests me most, is the Web 2.0 aspect. This kind of community can really help turn amateurs into professionals. -
ForgeWriteAhead - Create a Script Online, with Zhura! April 16th 2008
This site is one of the coolest sites I have seen in a while.Want to write a professionally formated script or screenplay by yourself but don't want to download the software or buy it? No problem. Just go to Zhura.com and register. It's free and it's easy. You get access to online software (I think it's flash or javascript) that formats your script. It even backs up your files for you. So, if your computer crashes, you are covered. -
MyAnimeList - Zhura.com February 29th 2008
I found this sick online script/screenwriting site that has some seriously amazing web 2.0 functionality. It's fast! Zhura.com If you are writing scripts for your anime/manga concept, I'm thinking this is pretty incredible. Apparently it has collaboration features as well, but I have to check those out... -
The Thinking Writer - Screenwriting 2.O February 27th 2008
Zhura's documents are available from anywhere in the world, as long as you have an Internet connection. Similarly, spreadsheets that compete with Excel and Lotus are also beginning to be available through web apps. So, how does this relate to screenwriting? The folks at Zhura were kind enough to invite me to test drive their new screeenwriting web app at, where else, zhura.com. The idea is that you no longer need to buy any screenwriting software; you can just write your script online... -
Mystery Man on Film - on Zhura... Februatry 25th 2008
"Got an email today from Zhura.com asking me to take a tour of their new online screenwriting tool... I was on it for maybe less than 10 minutes and it's actually not too bad. Fast and easy to navigate through... -
talk to rex - Making screenwriting easier... February 23rd 2008
Zhura are focussed on collaboration, so you put up your idea, screenplay, whatever, and license it so that other people can contribute. Obviously you all retain copyright for whatever work you do on it, which will just make it pretty much impossible that anybody would ever actually pay for it (also I suspect WGA arbitration is gonna kick in automatically if you even mention Zhura in future). -
Complications Ensue - Another Web Screenwriting Tool February 23rd 2008
Zhura.com is a brand new totally free Web-based, screenwriting tool that lets writers easily create ideas or complete scripts of all kinds, in a professional, industry-standard format, either privately, with invited friends of a group, or in a public forum. With Zhura, writers can collaborate and seek comments on their scripts, and finally say goodbye to expensive software and to the hassle of downloading uploading and backing up files. No more emailing colleagues for comments and edits, only to wonder which version of your script is the most recent. -
The Unknown Screenwriter - Zhura online screenwriting site February 22nd 2008
Got an email today from Zhura.com asking me to take a tour of their new online screenwriting tool... I was on it for maybe less than 10 minutes and it's actually not too bad. Fast and easy to navigate through. Probably a pretty cool way for those of you who collaborate who get tired... -
wildwinter - Zhura.com February 20th 2008
If you're interested in screenwriting - Zhura.com - is a collaborative screenwriting site with an online script editing tool.
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