We're still very stuck on the script. I can't sleep right now. It's weird. There's a very important scene that we just can't get to work properly and it doesn't feel right even having it in there. How can it not feel right having an important scene in there? This is kind of frustrating.
Thank you Papa John's (previous employer) for sucking out my soul and taking most of my creativity with it. YOU SUCK!
It's taken me a couple of years just to get the writing glimmer back because of the nonsense I had to deal with working for that company but that is not why you're reading this blog so let's move on. The script is stalled at the moment so we're obviously behind schedule. And I'm pretty sure it's my fault because I can't figure out exactly what I want to do with this.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Day 17.
We've hit a bit of a snag. We're stuck on one of the scenes. I'm sure we'll work it out though.
Monday, March 22, 2010
DAY 15
We've hit a little bit of a snag again but I think we'll get through it. One of the scenes is causing us some problems with how to go about it exactly. I'm betting once the awesomeness that is Robert Downey Jr gets a hold of this scene he'll have some genius ideas that'll make it one of the best scenes of the movie but right now it's just kind of bleh and we're both too tired to figure out what to do.
Oh if I only didn't have to work. And the way my schedule at work is going I might have to get a second job which will very much hinder my ability to write the script, but I'm thinking things will work themselves out.
We'll get this scene sorted out and everything will fall into place. It feels like we've written HOURS of script and it'll probably only come out to about 40 minutes if we're lucky right now. We'll have to see how things go. And even if Robert isn't in the movie, just getting it made would be fantastic.
Oh if I only didn't have to work. And the way my schedule at work is going I might have to get a second job which will very much hinder my ability to write the script, but I'm thinking things will work themselves out.
We'll get this scene sorted out and everything will fall into place. It feels like we've written HOURS of script and it'll probably only come out to about 40 minutes if we're lucky right now. We'll have to see how things go. And even if Robert isn't in the movie, just getting it made would be fantastic.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Day 12
We had a minor set back in that somewhere between my laptop and my desk top, my copy of the script got deleted. I had it on a disc so that I could easily transfer from one to the other and somehow the disc was erased. I don't know how. BUT with the wonderfulness that is Cally having her own copy I was able to get another copy and remake the changes that I made last night.
We are making a great deal of progress though. We're at nearly 8000 words total. Only 2000 more words to go before Sunday. I don't know if we're going to make it but we'll get close at least.
And now we're finally in sync on the number of words. Not sure about the number of pages but that's okay as long as we have the same number of words, right? Right. Now I am going to get in a nap before I have to go to work later. Because I know you wanted to know that.
We are making a great deal of progress though. We're at nearly 8000 words total. Only 2000 more words to go before Sunday. I don't know if we're going to make it but we'll get close at least.
And now we're finally in sync on the number of words. Not sure about the number of pages but that's okay as long as we have the same number of words, right? Right. Now I am going to get in a nap before I have to go to work later. Because I know you wanted to know that.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
DAY 10
WOOT! We're at over 7500 words so that's good. We've made some headway on the script. We're getting some of the most important scenes taken care of. It's turning out to be pretty good.
I keep picture Robert whenever I write the dialogue. Seeing him playing it out in my head. It turns out pretty awesome. Of course if the wonderful Robert Downey Jr does agree to do this it'll be AMAZING and fantastic. Life will be good. I think even if Robert doesn't agree to do it, it'll still be good with the right cast. :-)
I keep picture Robert whenever I write the dialogue. Seeing him playing it out in my head. It turns out pretty awesome. Of course if the wonderful Robert Downey Jr does agree to do this it'll be AMAZING and fantastic. Life will be good. I think even if Robert doesn't agree to do it, it'll still be good with the right cast. :-)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Day 9
We've gotten a little bit more done on the script. We're at about 6300 words as of right now. We figured out one of the word count discrepancy situations and somehow still managed to have a little bit of a difference, but not enough of one to matter, really. So that's good.
Things are coming along rather nicely. We have a baseline for the next scene so that's good. It needs a lot of work but we've gotten it started. As of right now on my computer we're at 27 pages. So we're right on schedule if we were still doing three pages per day. But since we changed it to a word count per week, we're still doing good.
Things are coming along rather nicely. We have a baseline for the next scene so that's good. It needs a lot of work but we've gotten it started. As of right now on my computer we're at 27 pages. So we're right on schedule if we were still doing three pages per day. But since we changed it to a word count per week, we're still doing good.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Day 6
So we mainly did some editing today. There was some addition, though, so now we're at a little over 5900 words. That's awesome. It's going very well. We've been having some disagreements about the way things should be worded. We're working it out, though. Haven't had any big fights. I think that's good.
So it's also been decided that we want Jon Favreau to direct the movie. He's done beautifully with all of the movies I've seen that he's directed and he and Robert work so well together. And then there was the decision to maybe see if we could get a celebrity to retweet a link to this wonderful blog. I was thinking about all of the people on twitter that have worked with the amazing Robert Downey Jr and I could only come up with Ben Stiller and Jon Favreau.
I'm a little afraid though. There's a part of me that is worst case scenarioing everything and makes me think Robert will want to shut us down. But I guess he'd be flattered that we're writing a script specifically for him. I really wish I knew which one it was going to be. Only time will tell.
So it's also been decided that we want Jon Favreau to direct the movie. He's done beautifully with all of the movies I've seen that he's directed and he and Robert work so well together. And then there was the decision to maybe see if we could get a celebrity to retweet a link to this wonderful blog. I was thinking about all of the people on twitter that have worked with the amazing Robert Downey Jr and I could only come up with Ben Stiller and Jon Favreau.
I'm a little afraid though. There's a part of me that is worst case scenarioing everything and makes me think Robert will want to shut us down. But I guess he'd be flattered that we're writing a script specifically for him. I really wish I knew which one it was going to be. Only time will tell.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Day 5 wrap up.
Yes I know it's technically Day 6 since it's after midnight here in my time zone but it is a wrap up of day five so that's what I'm calling it. Especially since this server appears to be two hours behind me so it'll look like it posted after 10pm yesterday instead of after midnight today. Gotta love those Internet technicalities. ANYWAY.
In doing this project we learned that there's a big difference between Windows Vista MS Word and Windows 7 MS Works Word Processor. This meaning that the number of pages I have and the number of pages she has are completely different even though we're at the same number of words. That being said, Cally and I have decided to set a word count goal rather than a pages per day goal. So now we're going for 5000 words per week. We were going to do 800 a day but then realized that with some days having more and some days having less, 5000 a week is just a better goal in general.
We got a lot of work done today. Cally did some writing and I edited and and fine tuned what she wrote. The awesome thing is though that I did some writing also. I ended up writing about seven pages I think? Anyway. We were at a little over 4300 words when she sent the new pages to me and now we're at a little over 5400. So we're already 431 words ahead of our weekly goal and there are still two days in this week.
The pivotal scene is pretty much done. There's some anger and some crying and some heart wrenching. It's definitely going to be a tear jerker, especially if Robert gets his hands on this script. That is an OMG moment just thinking about the amazing Robert Downey Jr playing out some of these scenes. I don't know if I'll be able to handle just thinking about it let alone what I'll do if I actually get to see it.
But that's done for now. We still have a lot of work to do and there's still a bunch of scenes that need to be taken care of. This is only about the first half hour of the movie, sadly. By the time we're done though there may be stuff that needs to be cut for time sake. lol. And again I say, we'll just have to wait and see.
In doing this project we learned that there's a big difference between Windows Vista MS Word and Windows 7 MS Works Word Processor. This meaning that the number of pages I have and the number of pages she has are completely different even though we're at the same number of words. That being said, Cally and I have decided to set a word count goal rather than a pages per day goal. So now we're going for 5000 words per week. We were going to do 800 a day but then realized that with some days having more and some days having less, 5000 a week is just a better goal in general.
We got a lot of work done today. Cally did some writing and I edited and and fine tuned what she wrote. The awesome thing is though that I did some writing also. I ended up writing about seven pages I think? Anyway. We were at a little over 4300 words when she sent the new pages to me and now we're at a little over 5400. So we're already 431 words ahead of our weekly goal and there are still two days in this week.
The pivotal scene is pretty much done. There's some anger and some crying and some heart wrenching. It's definitely going to be a tear jerker, especially if Robert gets his hands on this script. That is an OMG moment just thinking about the amazing Robert Downey Jr playing out some of these scenes. I don't know if I'll be able to handle just thinking about it let alone what I'll do if I actually get to see it.
But that's done for now. We still have a lot of work to do and there's still a bunch of scenes that need to be taken care of. This is only about the first half hour of the movie, sadly. By the time we're done though there may be stuff that needs to be cut for time sake. lol. And again I say, we'll just have to wait and see.
Day 5
Since it's 215 in the morning here in my time zone I have to call this Day 5 but it's just the beginning. As you can see I didn't post the last couple of days. I meant to post yesterday but I've been getting myself addicted to ancestry.com and finding my relatives and things so I've been slightly side tracked.
We really didn't do any writing the last couple of days because we were tweaking what we already had. Fine tuning and editing and things like that. Making it flow a little better. BUT in the process of all this we did come up with a very pivotal scene that is going to either make or break the movie.
We also agreed that if the movie gets made and if the amazing Robert Downey Jr agrees to do it then we will most definitely let him ad lib and have some creative say in the lines and things like that. I mean, he did that with Iron Man and look how it turned out. So of course we're going to let his genius run free on our script. The whole point is to get awards with this movie for us as well as him.
I am saying right now that I refuse to let he movie be released in theaters before August 1st. Any movie that is going to have any chance during awards time needs to be released later in the year. Look at The Soloist. Both Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr deserved awards for that movie and it didn't even get nominated because everybody forgot about it. So this movie will not be released before August 1st. If I can get away with putting that in any kind of contract we might get should the script get sold. Actually I guess I should say that it will not be released between February 1st and August 1st. Because, if you think about it, March 15th of this year is after August 1st of last year. And you know that studios would look for that kind of loophole. Or maybe between August 1st and December 31st. That would be best. The point is it needs to be out in time for Oscar consideration but not released so early that it gets forgotten before the nominations come around.
And I really think I'm getting way ahead of myself right now. lol. But it's now 223am and I told myself I was going to be in bed a long time ago. So good night for now. I will post again when we have more script written.
We really didn't do any writing the last couple of days because we were tweaking what we already had. Fine tuning and editing and things like that. Making it flow a little better. BUT in the process of all this we did come up with a very pivotal scene that is going to either make or break the movie.
We also agreed that if the movie gets made and if the amazing Robert Downey Jr agrees to do it then we will most definitely let him ad lib and have some creative say in the lines and things like that. I mean, he did that with Iron Man and look how it turned out. So of course we're going to let his genius run free on our script. The whole point is to get awards with this movie for us as well as him.
I am saying right now that I refuse to let he movie be released in theaters before August 1st. Any movie that is going to have any chance during awards time needs to be released later in the year. Look at The Soloist. Both Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr deserved awards for that movie and it didn't even get nominated because everybody forgot about it. So this movie will not be released before August 1st. If I can get away with putting that in any kind of contract we might get should the script get sold. Actually I guess I should say that it will not be released between February 1st and August 1st. Because, if you think about it, March 15th of this year is after August 1st of last year. And you know that studios would look for that kind of loophole. Or maybe between August 1st and December 31st. That would be best. The point is it needs to be out in time for Oscar consideration but not released so early that it gets forgotten before the nominations come around.
And I really think I'm getting way ahead of myself right now. lol. But it's now 223am and I told myself I was going to be in bed a long time ago. So good night for now. I will post again when we have more script written.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Day 2 addendum
So I found out that you can only direct message people on twitter if they are following you as well as you following them. That means I can't use any of my "contacts" to help me get ideas on how to submit the scripts. Which means I'm going to have to try to use other means.
Anybody got any ideas?
Anybody got any ideas?
Day 2 final post
So we got a lot more done today. On my computer using Microsoft Works Word Processor on Windows 7 at 10 point Times Roman we actually have 9 pages. So we got three days worth of work done in two days. That's pretty good.
The problem is that the script we have written so far is maybe....10 minutes of film? If that. It's really kind of daunting when you think about it. But all we can do is keep writing and see what happens.
There are those words again. Or at least a version of them. Popping up again as I said they would. So now day 2 is done because Cally has gone off to bed.
I think having a fresh set of eyes on the situation is what's helping the most. Having a second brain working on it. It's changing from my original plan but I think it's working out. Hopefully before long we'll have it copy righted and I'll be able to send it off to a studio.
I'm thinking about using my Twitter "connections" with some famous people like Jon Favreau or Amber Benson or Ben Stiller and see if I can get some advice on how to submit the script to a studio. Don't know if I'll get an answer but it never hurts to ask, does it?
The problem is that the script we have written so far is maybe....10 minutes of film? If that. It's really kind of daunting when you think about it. But all we can do is keep writing and see what happens.
There are those words again. Or at least a version of them. Popping up again as I said they would. So now day 2 is done because Cally has gone off to bed.
I think having a fresh set of eyes on the situation is what's helping the most. Having a second brain working on it. It's changing from my original plan but I think it's working out. Hopefully before long we'll have it copy righted and I'll be able to send it off to a studio.
I'm thinking about using my Twitter "connections" with some famous people like Jon Favreau or Amber Benson or Ben Stiller and see if I can get some advice on how to submit the script to a studio. Don't know if I'll get an answer but it never hurts to ask, does it?
Day 2 continued
Collaboration has begun! Woot! We've gotten some work done on the script that was already written. We're fine tuning and so forth. That's good. I emailed her the basic premise for the second script but there's a lot of work that needs to be done on that too. Now, though, we can put that aside and save it for later.
We've decided to do three script pages a day. That's a good pace, I think. If we're going for 150 pages that gives us 50 days. SO, if things go the way we want them to go we should have a finished script by the end of April. Then of course we can spend time fine tuning and tweaking and making sure it's exactly what we want it to be.
For some reason my brain didn't pick up on the fact that 50 days is less than two months. I guess it's due to a lack of sleep. So now I head back to bed before going to work even though I only have about an hour before I have to be awake just because I need to get gas on the way to work since I didn't do it last night but I guess that's more information than you needed.
We've decided to do three script pages a day. That's a good pace, I think. If we're going for 150 pages that gives us 50 days. SO, if things go the way we want them to go we should have a finished script by the end of April. Then of course we can spend time fine tuning and tweaking and making sure it's exactly what we want it to be.
For some reason my brain didn't pick up on the fact that 50 days is less than two months. I guess it's due to a lack of sleep. So now I head back to bed before going to work even though I only have about an hour before I have to be awake just because I need to get gas on the way to work since I didn't do it last night but I guess that's more information than you needed.
Day 2
I am calling this Day 2 because it is after midnight here in my time zone and I think that counts as the second day. There'll probably be another Day 2 post toward the end of the day but I wanted to get some stuff out there while I have it in my head.
I've sort of started working out an idea for the heart warming drama. I can't say it's an original idea and I don't really know if it's going to work. We'll have to wait and see. I'm going to say that a lot, just so you know. "Wait and see" will make several appearances in various forms because that's all we really can do. We get the ideas down on paper, or in this case typed on a computer, then get everything together and.....you guessed it. Wait and see.
So when she wakes up in her time zone I will run the idea past Cally and see what she thinks and go from there.
I edited this post so that it would actually post on the second day.
I've sort of started working out an idea for the heart warming drama. I can't say it's an original idea and I don't really know if it's going to work. We'll have to wait and see. I'm going to say that a lot, just so you know. "Wait and see" will make several appearances in various forms because that's all we really can do. We get the ideas down on paper, or in this case typed on a computer, then get everything together and.....you guessed it. Wait and see.
So when she wakes up in her time zone I will run the idea past Cally and see what she thinks and go from there.
I edited this post so that it would actually post on the second day.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Day 1
I'll be honest and say that Cally is doing most of the hard work. I'm the idea person apparently and she's doing the actually writing. Today while I was at work she got started with the ideas I gave her before I left for work.
She's started to help me on a script/novel that I actually started back in 2006. I started writing the script for Gale Harold, in all honesty, but my love for the man dwindled to nothingness after I got a chance to meet him. Let's just say sometimes it's better for the fantasies to stay fantasies.
I know that's a little bit of a contradiction since I'm kind of doing this in the hopes of one day getting to meet the wonderfulness that is Robert Downey Jr, but he just seems to be a lot more real than some of the other people I've seen and met. Meeting him could totally burst my bubble but that is a chance I am very willing to take.
All I'm going to say right now is that the title of the project is Side Effect. No details given out at this time. We're actually going to be working on two scripts. One is going to be an awesome psycho thriller and the other is going to be a heart warming drama. One I know will be at least mostly original and the other will probably end up being cliche and sappy, but there's not really a whole lot of originality that can be produced when heart warming drama is what you're going for. We'll have to see what we can come up with there.
So, as of Day 1 we have 3 pages of script down for the psycho thriller that we're working on. I haven't read them yet because she lives in a time zone that is 6 hours ahead of me and therefore had to go to bed before I got home from work, but I will definitely read them tomorrow.
I think the motto of this blog is going to be GOD BLESS THE INTERNET! Without it, Cally and I may never have met, let alone tried to collaborate on a script or two. :-)
She's started to help me on a script/novel that I actually started back in 2006. I started writing the script for Gale Harold, in all honesty, but my love for the man dwindled to nothingness after I got a chance to meet him. Let's just say sometimes it's better for the fantasies to stay fantasies.
I know that's a little bit of a contradiction since I'm kind of doing this in the hopes of one day getting to meet the wonderfulness that is Robert Downey Jr, but he just seems to be a lot more real than some of the other people I've seen and met. Meeting him could totally burst my bubble but that is a chance I am very willing to take.
All I'm going to say right now is that the title of the project is Side Effect. No details given out at this time. We're actually going to be working on two scripts. One is going to be an awesome psycho thriller and the other is going to be a heart warming drama. One I know will be at least mostly original and the other will probably end up being cliche and sappy, but there's not really a whole lot of originality that can be produced when heart warming drama is what you're going for. We'll have to see what we can come up with there.
So, as of Day 1 we have 3 pages of script down for the psycho thriller that we're working on. I haven't read them yet because she lives in a time zone that is 6 hours ahead of me and therefore had to go to bed before I got home from work, but I will definitely read them tomorrow.
I think the motto of this blog is going to be GOD BLESS THE INTERNET! Without it, Cally and I may never have met, let alone tried to collaborate on a script or two. :-)
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