Day 360

In five more days it will be one year since we started this whole thing and we're still nowhere near actually having a viable script. It's kind of strange, really. I thought by now we'd have at least two scripts completed but that hasn't happened at all.

Of course I've noticed that there are really only three people that read this thing, including myself. That's not much in the way of being a confidence builder. Still doesn't change the fact that I am going to keep trying to do something with one of these ideas I have in my head.

They're not all going to star the wonderful RDJ. I mean, that's the original idea. Writing a script for Robert to be the lead actor. Maybe even a script that will get him a much deserved and way past due Oscar. But that doesn't mean that every script has to be for him. As amazing as Robert Downey Jr is, he's not right for every single part that gets put in front of him. But then again, that's what his production company is for, right? Maybe he won't star in it but he could produce or direct it. That would still be pretty awesome.

Either way we're going to keep working and hopefully by the time this blog hits its second anniversary we'll have something that we can do something with.

We'll just have to wait and see.

Day 297

I had to go through and change some of the days because I was a little off on the numbers, but I managed to get it all worked out. Thank you to timeanddate.com for the help with that. So that's all worked out.

I keep coming up with all kinds of ideas, some usable, some not. I don't want to redo anything that might already exist and claim it as my own. That would suck. So I'm trying to come up with some original stuff. Cliches are okay because they're not stealing ideas, they're stuff that happens in every romcom or romdram or dramedy or whatever combination you want to use.

So there's a lot of work that needs to be done. We're nowhere near finished on any of the scripts and considering that we were planning on being completely done with all of it by the end of June, it's safe to say we're WAY behind schedule.

All we can do is keep working and hope that we can come up with something that someone would be willing to buy and make into a movie. And that we have the money to copyright it before sending it to studios.

We'll have to just wait and see.

Day 262

I know I said I was going to work on NaNoWriMo but that fell through rather quickly and to be quite honest, I'm not at all surprised. I got kind of bored with the story that I was working on. Oh well.

The good news is that I came up with an idea for the beginning of a random romcom that I think Cally and I can work on together and really turn into something awesome. We'll just have to wait and see about that.

The thing that's really getting to me is that the best way to write a script that is likely to sell is to do something schmoopy and cliche and I really hate to do that, but you gotta go with what sells in Hollywood.

I mean, of all the romcoms I've seen Katherine Heigl in, there's only one in which she doesn't despise the guy in the beginning of the movie only to end up falling in love with him by the end. It's cliche and over done and ridiculous. I mean, hell. Even George Lucas did it. But, you gotta go with what sells. Hopefully we can find a schmoopy cliche story that I don't feel like a total hooker for writing.

Only time will tell. :-)

Day 255

While there hasn't been much progress on the scripts, I have been getting the writing bug lately, so that's a good sign. Gotta take what you can get, right? The ideas I'm getting are rather cliche and not really anything that I can use for a script that may or may not be starring the wonderful Robert Downey Jr, but at least I've gotten the interest in writing again.

So hopefully something will come along that will get me back into the ideas that we originally tried to go with. We can only wait and see.

Until then, totally random and unrelated, MATT SMITH IS TOTALLY ADORABLE!

And now I say goodnight.

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.