What Happens Next?

Posted by Stewart McKie 05/18/2008 12:00 AM PDT

The title of this ideablog is borrowed from the final sentence of Mark Norman's recent book "A History of Screenwriting". If you create or consume screenplays then this ideablog should be of interest to you.

An ideablog is a crowdsourcing application - it lives or dies by the quantity and quality of the ideas posted to it and the engagement that those ideas stimulate in the form of votes and/or comments. By participating you are taking part in a collaborative ideation community - your ideas belong to you but the community may help you to develop or clarify your idea.

Perhaps you have ideas about how a screenplay could be better written; how the current generation of screenwriting software could be improved; or how screenplay analysis can be improved. Whatever.

Screenwriting and the screenwriting process is only around a century old. In that time it has been subject to minimal innovation. But that's all about to change - or at least that's what I hope this ideablog will prove.

To take part you just need to post your ideas, comment and vote for other people's ideas and spread the word through your blogs and websites. If you think more idea categories are needed then post your suggestion under the category "Site Suggestions" so I can add the category.