In addition to writing lots of screenplays, John August also writes a blog that is full of useful information for screenwriters. After experiencing frustration with getting screenplay text to display with proper formatting, he put together something called Scrippets. It’s a plug-in for various blogging systems that lets you wrap a clip from your script with a tag which makes it automatically display it in a format that looks like a screenplay. Pretty cool. To test it out, here’s a clip from THE SPIDER BABIES.
EXT. – ROOF
Johnny and Ethel are getting dressed. They listen to the ruckus from the gang down below.
JOHNNY
Did she already run off another boy?
ETHEL
That would be a new world record.
As she pulls on her t-shirt she looks out at the highway and notices several wrecked cars. Other cars seem to have driven off the road and stopped in fields.
ETHEL (CONT’D)
Baby, look! A car crash.
Johnny stands up and squints into the light.
