  First post. Cool. I don't know if anyone will ever read this or not, but I decided to start keeping a running log after reading the book Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez. I'd actually read this book before, a long (long) time ago, but decided to read it again recently as I start getting back into film.
As a kid, film was all I ever wanted to do. Growing up in a small town, there was only one theater I could go to, which was (quite literally) right in the middle of town square. The old guy in the projection booth took a liking to me, and he would let me collect the strips of film that result everytime he had to do a makeshift splice.
After I'd been showing up for a year or two, he gave me an old film splicer from the early 1900s and before long I was slicing together bits and pieces of completely unrelated movies.. cutting and rearranging a frankenstein-like beast of 35mm pratfalls, action scenes, and unconnected dialogue. Somewhere along the way, I took a turn away from film, and I've never quite forgiven myself for it. I've seen success in other areas -- but I can feel the dream slipping away from me. If I don't start pushing now -- and pushing HARD -- this story will end up being a "what could have been" tale.. and, honestly, I'm not a big fan of those.
So here is my plan, for whatever it's worth: I'm going to try and document my process here, start to finish. The places I go, the decisions I make, the things I learn. I'm going to take some ideas through the cycle of concept->development->production->pitch, and see what happens. If nothing else, even if it doesn't work, I'll have a nice running narrative of the process along the way, and maybe someone out there reading this will pick up a few helpful hints or learn from my mistakes. I'm also not going to promise to keep this log running indefinately. I reserve the right to drop it, flake out, or just put it on the sidelines for any particular length of time.
If major things happen (fingers crossed on that one, eh? ) then I'll try and be sure to post them. I will say that I tend to be rather prolific in my writing, so hopefully keeping this thing current won't be a problem. I suppose we will see. 
