Yes, the RDJ does stand for Robert Downey Jr. Now I know what you're thinking. Everybody and their cousin's hamster has a blog. In this day and age it's not exactly new and exciting. But this is a sort of special blog for my friend Cally and me. We're going to be using this blog to chronicle our progress in an attempt to write a script (or two) specifically designed to involve the gorgeous and talented Robert Downey Jr. Maybe he'll be in it, maybe he'll produce it, maybe he'll direct it, that doesn't matter to us. As long as he's a part of it in some way or another. Whether they get made into movies or not remains to be seen. The first, most important step is actually finishing the script and sending it off. All we can do is put our minds together, shake them up a bit and see if anything usable is concocted. Only time will tell.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Day 209

This is really just a test to see if this thing works.  There’s nothing new going on with any of the scripts.  My brain is completely fried and I think that’s because of the fact that my hours have been cut to the point that I can’t even make my car payment in one paycheck like I used to be able to.  Two weeks worth of pay isn’t adding up to $330.  Pathetic, right?  Hopefully I’ll be able to pick up more hours soon.  Or at least get a second job.  We’ll see what happens with that. 

But this isn’t supposed to be about my personal life, this is supposed to be about the progress of writing the scripts for Robert to either star in or produce.  Or maybe direct.  Hopefully one of them.

I am giving a test to this thing called Windows Live Writer.  Trying to decide if this is better than just going to the website and posting the entries directly through there.  Let’s see how that goes. 

I’m really hoping that I can come up with something soon regarding this script.  Or these scripts I should say.  I’m trying really hard to write something that might actually get bought.  I still want to go with my remake of Philadelphia Story but I don’t know what all is involved in copyrighting something like that.  I probably have to pay a fee to the people that wrote the original story.  I don’t know for sure.  I do know that I want to come up with something really original and that’s been hard to do.  I’m editing the first script back to my original idea and so far I’ve managed to cut out half the pages.  It’s not turning out to be as awesome as I thought it would be.  And I’m still really stuck on the ending. 

I’m not very good at writing scripts.  I’m better at writing stories.  Maybe I should just sit down and start writing a story and then get someone to turn it into a script later.  Maybe get someone that has experience in script writing to do that for me.  I would have final say on the screenplay, of course, but that would be a lot easier for me than trying to write it in script form.  My  brain doesn’t work in stage direction and so forth.  All I can do is see what I can come up with and go from there. 

I still completely plan on writing a book titled My Crazy Neighbors Have A Psychic Rooster.  One of these days I’ll go about explaining what that means exactly.  I think with a title like that it’s bound to sell, right?  

Well, now it’s after 2am and I have been up for about 17 hours after only about 4 hours of sleep.  I should have been in bed a long time ago and I have been on the verge of crash for the last several hours, but I had TV shows to catch up on.  Sleep is imminent however.   

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