I’ve been tinkering with Triberr.com these past few days, and while I can’t claim your completely get it, one thing I did notice is a distinct lack of a screenwriters tribe.

So, thinking that this was a shocking oversight, I set about creating one.

If you’ve not checked out Triberr,  it’s a site where like-minded bloggers can group together in tribes, check out each others posts and easily help promote each others posts. (At least that’s what I understand it to be at the moment.)

If you’ve got a screenwriting blog and would like to join the screenwriting tribe,  drop me an email at andy@coughlan.me.uk or DM me on Twitter (@andycoughlan)

I’m slowly working my way through my Twitter friends sending invites,  although it’s a bit of a slow process…

I just stumbled across the files for the House of Donn web site, which I thought lost, due to a rather careless mistake on my part.

For some reason I’d kept the domain name, despite having no real intention of doing much with it, so it was the work of a few seconds to recreate the hosting and upload the files.

So, if you missed it he first time around,  I proudly present House of Donn.

The Skittles Brand Book has to be one of the best brand guidelines I’ve seen. No stuffy no-fly zones and minimum font sizes for these guys. Love it.

Looking for money to fund your short film or creative project?

I’ve created a new web site, Help Me Fund It, that might be able to help you out.

It’s basically similar to the sites you might see advertised on telly, topcashback.co.uk or Quidco and suchlike, but rather than have users sign up and keep the money for themselves, they choose your project and the commission goes to you instead (less a small amount for admin).

It’s all very early doors yet and I really need some people to use the site, set up some projects and test everything out.  At the moment, I can’t progress any further with the development of the site until I get some real life projects in there.

So if you fancy earning a bit of money for your short film, head over to http://helpmefund.it and try it out. … Read More »

Late last year I started tinkering with the new Mobile jQuery platform and realised that I could try out an idea for a web site that had been floating around in the back of my mind for a while. I spent most of last Christmas holidays messing about with it only to find that the development of the Mobile jQuery platform just wasn’t there yet. The project was promptly sidelined in favour of festive activities and soon forgotten.

Fast forward to last week, when I had a little tinker and realised that they’d managed to iron out all the irritating buglets that hampered my attempts before, so now I proudly present AtomFic!

It’s a fun little mobile web app that allows you to write stories of up to 1000 words on your mobile phone or tablet (and PC if you use Firefox … Read More »

Imagine, if you will, an infinite corkboard, that stretches away forever (into virtual space, anyway) and allows you to post notes, ideas, images, videos, and other cool content on there. That’s Spaaze, and it’s one of my favourite web sites.

I discovered it a few months ago and since then the developers have been working hard to make it even better. They even recently implemented a suggestion I made to allow you to change the note format into an Index Card (previously they only had sticky note or the default spiral bound notepaper).

I’ve been using it to plan a short film I’m writing at the moment and it works a treat.

I think you could have a lot of fun with it and create some really interesting site ideas, especially now they have implemented internal linking so you can zip about between … Read More »

It was appraisal time at work recently, and whilst having my review it was quite rightly pointed out to me that I tend to hold back on launching a project if I don’t think it’s perfect which often times it can never be. Both at home and at work I’ve left too many projects/screenplays/web sites half finished where I’ve got so far and then run out of steam because I wanted it to be perfect first time. Apparently it’s an INTP trait, but that’s not really much of an excuse.

As it happened I’d been looking through the cool ‘cube grenades’ that Hugh MacLeod (@gapingvoid) has done over the past few years. This one in particular really hit home in the light of that revelation:

So my new ‘rest of my life’ resolution is this: Get something done, be bloody amazing while you do it … Read More »

I’ve been playing a bit recently with Celtx, and finding myself pleasantly surprised by it. I tried it a few years ago and found it a little clumsy compared to Movie Magic Screenwriter and Final Draft and promptly forgot about it.

With Script Frenzy coming round a couple of months ago and not having Final Draft on my work computer, I thought I’d give Celtx a whirl again. I didn’t get very far with Script Frenzy, I think I ran out of steam on page 30, but I have stuck with Celtx for tinkering with other scripts during my lunch hours.

If you’re used to the flow of writing with Final Draft the Celtx takes a little bit of getting used to, there’s a few more hits of the tab keys to get everything just so. Also the default editing view shows … Read More »

I’ve spent some time over the past few weeks editing this little number together for my good friend Ben Shockley.

The Avenging Spirit – Promo from Andy Coughlan on Vimeo.

So things are starting to finally pick up on The Man Who Wished. Balls set rolling last year are finally starting to pick up speed and I’m again on the lookout for a bit of funding.

As you may have noticed from my Twitter feed or from this blog, I created UK Hot Deals in the hopes that I might generate some income to cover the costs of the shoot.

Rather than go in with the usual ‘Please give me money’ routine, which I tried last year and more or less fell on deaf ears, I figured I should go with something that has mutual benefits.

To this end, if you would like to help out, rather than dig deep in your pockets, please just tell your friends about UK Hot Deals and encourage them to check it out and use it.

I’ve also created a little widget though Widgetbox … Read More »