Roddy has an optioned script; he IS a writer, almost!
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Snee

Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 01:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hunter, don't worry about the posting. hey, don't be so quiet on the other threads...or, get a member's folder and post yourself silly!

Hunter

Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 06:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Snee...My friend

I have posted on a few of the other threads.

I posted in my alter ego...the serious side

Apparently they weren't that notable or you would have remembered one.

I guess I'm funnier when I'm dumber...or...dumber when I am funnier. You know what I mean

Friendly smile.

What's a members folder?? I can be silly??...I don't know if I can do that.

Nermal

Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 06:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What does Roddy do to actually support himself while he's writing? Does anyone know? It doesn't sound like he's sold enough scripts to actually make a living off his writing right now.

Shadowkat

Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 06:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Nermal, Roddy has mentioned that he bartended in the past, but no one in the house has been inquisitive enough to ask him what he's doing to support himself. :( Maybe we should ask Julie to ask him!!

Nermal

Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 06:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I keep hoping one of them will ask Roddy about that, Shadow. I am sure Julie won't, but good suggestion. I heard his bartending comment. That seemed like a long time ago to me, though.

Earthmother

Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 06:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think I may have seen his book while strolling through the local Waldens recently. Do you think he could have written "How to create a wooden toy with strings while losing $500,000 in one summer"? It was in the autobiography section..

Bohawkins

Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 06:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It reminds me of the running joke in the Los Angeles area. No matter who you meet, in any situation, whether it is the guy carrying your groceries to your car, or a waiter or your housepainter, to make small talk, just say, "Well, how is the screenplay coming?"

The funny thing is, it works. I say it from time to time in LA, just to be funny, but people oftentimes just look somewhat surprised, and then tell me, that they have a treatment written, or they have the first draft done, or that several people are looking at it now. There are millions of screenwriters in America.

Sia

Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 09:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What's Roddy's first name, please? Is "Roddy" short for something else? Just curious.

Snee

Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 11:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hunter, getting a member's folder is easy. click on this link: tvch topics page
-after that click 'member's room'
-then sign in (if not already)
-click on 'message board'
-scroll to bottom of page and click on 'create new conversation', using your screen name or a variation of it . and there you go!

and yes, i remember your posts.

nermal, the bartending doesn't surprise me. it is very difficult to make a living by writing i understand. it makes sense that many (most?) have day jobs.

Hunter

Monday, August 05, 2002 - 12:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Earthmother...very...very funny.

Bohawkins...I hear ya...smling. I wish I had a nickel for every writer who hasn't made a nickel.

Snee...whenever I think about Roddy writing I'll think about the "Teen Movie Romp...and LMAO

Thanks for the info

Earthmother

Monday, August 05, 2002 - 12:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'd like to get serious here for a moment;

I have always felt that a good writer is someone who can take a situation which is hard to understand for the average person and with picture words (as we call them when explaining it to students..lots of detailed adjectives)can make the reader visualize what you are saying. Most writers I know tend to speak discriptively as well. I have a hard time believing he is a writer.. However, when flying high on LSD with swirls of color and flashing projections all around you perhaps he is making some sense when he speaks. I guess I just want to give the guy the benefit of the doubt.

Snee

Monday, August 05, 2002 - 05:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
sia, i don't think we've found out what roddy is short for. it may be roderick or rodney or just roddy. are there any other variations?

metaphor can take you a long way too; connections are helpful. benefit of the doubt is nice, earthmother.

hunter, you're welcome. i liked your posts.

Sia

Monday, August 05, 2002 - 10:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe Roddy is just a nickname. It could be short for "Hot Rod" or "Rodan." (Rodan, as in Godzilla's enemy, not Rodin the sculptor!!) His name could actually be Herschel. Roddy just sounds more interesting for a writer, somehow.

Ellenkats

Tuesday, August 06, 2002 - 07:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Or Rodzilla -- has anyone used that one on the boards yet? I like it almost as much as Rodfather.

Hunter

Tuesday, August 06, 2002 - 07:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Earthmother

(In my opinion)

There are few if any original ideas left.

We live in a world of...re-runs...re-makes. Look at tv...movies...even the stage. I love them...but..how many times are they going to bring back South Pacific...Annie Get Your Gun or Death of A Salesman. Sure their is...Rent..a handful of other original...successful plays.

There are many gifted writers but few new story lines. It's sad that their place in history will be limited...not by their talent...but by a lack of original matierial.

Having said that....Every so often...some God gifted person will take those old ideas...polish them and mold them into a work which captures our imaginations...touches our hearts...lifts our spirits...angers us...moves us to some social consiousness or just plain causes us to love the written word...like I do.

Many are called and few are chosen

Oh...to be one of those chosen ones


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