Day 244

Still absolutely no significant contributions to the scripts.  I think it’s safe to say that it’s going to be a while before anything happens with them.  Especially since work is kind of stressing me out and I am getting rare moments of creativity.  There’s also the fact that I’m not very good at writing scripts.  I’m much better at writing stories.  Maybe I should try doing that and see if it can be translated into a script.  I don’t know. 

I signed up to do NaNoWriMo this year but I’ve already managed to fail at that, even with just editing and adding to an existing story that I had written a few years ago.  I only needed to added about 15,000 words to an existing story and I can’t seem to get that done because inspiration has left me. 

I really need to win the lottery because then I can devote my time to writing instead of working and trying to make enough money to get my bills paid.  Unfortunately that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen any time soon. 

As the great, and fictional, Professor Charles Eppes once said, if you buy 20 lottery tickets a week then you’ll actually hit the jackpot once every 40,000 years.  And, of course, with my luck that jackpot winning hit would occur after my death.

I’m at a catch 22.  I need to write the script so that I can sell it and get money so I don’t have to work but I need money so I can spend my time writing the script instead of working.  It all comes down to the fact that I don’t have enough money to make lots of money. 

That really sucks. 

Day 213

So I’ve decided to go back to working on the rom/com and see what I can come up with.  I think I have a good idea of what I want to do but I’m not 100% certain.  I know that I can work with something, though.  I’ve already gotten a little bit started and hopefully I can go from there. 

My fingers are seriously itching to write something and it’s frustrating me that my brain is not cooperating with them.  I’ve been trying to come up with an idea for a book because I can write a lot more that way then I can while working on a screenplay but you have to go with the muses.

I seriously think my muses hate me right now because they are not giving me what I need.  Ugh.  Hopefully things will work out better soon.  Here we were hoping to be completely done with one script by now and we haven’t even been able to come up with a whole one.  Everything changed from my original idea and now I can’t get it working at all.  I can’t even get it back into book form.  I hate that I lost the transcript that I had originally.  It’d be really nice if NaNoWriMo would keep track of those things for you but they only keep track of them for one month and then as soon as it’s over, the stuff is gone.  Other wise I would have a copy of the original book that I started writing. 

It’s all just really frustrating is what it comes down to.  I hate it when I write and write and write and come up with like 20,000 words worth of material and then it all just disappears in the process of changing computers. 

And once again I have gotten away from the original topic of this blog.  The whole point of this is to write about the process of writing a script for Robert Downey Jr and all I’ve managed to do is complain about things that have nothing to do with that.  I would like to say that it will never happen again but that, unfortunately, is something that I just can not promise.  A lot of the stuff going on in my head that has nothing to do with Robert is part of the problem in getting the script out in the first place. 

All I can do is keep trying and hope that whatever I end up with isn’t complete and utter shit.  The finish product is supposed to be something that people actually want to make into a movie and I’m really afraid that it’s going to have to be schmoopy and cliché in order for that to happen.  Maybe sending it to Robert would be a good idea because he’d be happy to produce/direct/star in a movie that isn’t completely cliché and schmoopy.  Gotta have a finished product before I can send it to him, though.  So I just have to keep working and see what happens.

Man this is a long one.  I wasn’t expecting to have this much to say but apparently I do.  And now that it’s a little after 1am here in the lovely state of Texas, I need to get some sleep before I have to deal with the manger that I like the least. 

Day 209 part 2

Alright, so I found out that this thing really does work pretty well.  It’s a lot easier to edit the post before I make it in the Live Writer.  I do end up having to visit the website to publish the post but everything can be done in Windows Live Writer except for publishing so I truly believe that I will be using this from now on. 

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.   

Day 176

So we're still kind of stuck on the scripts and I think it's because there's a general sense of ucky going on between both of us. I'm going to have to find a second job to get my bills paid and that's going to eat up even more of the little time I have at the moment to be creative. I have a couple of ideas, though. Something I might just run with. Although it's more of a book idea than a script idea, but books can be turned into scripts, right?

Hopefully one of these projects will take off. Only time will tell.

Day 154

It really discourages me when I see stuff like the guy that got the book deal and TV show deal for Shit My Dad Says. Especially since it started as a twitter account and it's not even anything HE came up with. It's his dad doing all the work but HE'S making money off of it. What the hell? Why can't that ever happen to me?

Anyway. This post is about the scripts. It really is. There's still no progress and any future progress is going to be VERY slow because my parents are being douchebags and not handling their own finances which is requiring me to get a second job.

It'd be great if we could get one script finished and get it sold because then maybe I would be able to afford to get away from all of this bullshit. But, as I said I would say many times, we'll just have to wait and see.

Day 151

Still no progress on the scripts. Cally and I both seem to be stuck. I'd really like to get these done before next year because I totally plan on going to Comic Con next year and it would be awesome if I could find some way to get the script or scripts to Robert.


And now I've been distracted by a fresh out of the oven chocolate chip cookie so I'm going to go enjoy that.