Dear Reader,
Welcome to the official blog of R. M. Emerson Jr., Screenwriter. I plan on adding short stories and novels to the writer credit within the next couple of years, it just takes more time than I have right now to focus on those pursuits. I still work a Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM job. However, I plan to use the current movie, titled The Wild Hunt, a science fiction film noir in American Sign Language (ASL), to launch my career far enough to be able to support my family on my income.
My uncle inspired me to writing by the gift of his first-published novel on my thirteenth birthday, which was a Thanksgiving day, incidentally. I, even before then, liked good story, but since that gift of a paperback, I have desired story, regardless of whether or not I could articulate it as such. I remember during “writing time” in my high school English courses, I would take my favorite comic book characters and send them on the adventures I wanted them to live. And they really failed to live up to what I had hoped.
I started college with the goal to become a medical doctor, but, only found a scholarship as a technical theater major (on my second go-round of college). I completed my Associates of Science in general education and transferred to the University of Utah, as a Physics major, intent on achieving my goal. However, I realized that medical school was never to be mine. I then decided to pursue particle astrophysics, but, alas (for that degree) realized I possessed better skills of writing than I did in the physics world. (Although my most favorite job I worked so far outside of my current field qualifies as the job I worked as a laboratory assistant for the Physics Department at the U, my laboratory was the Blackrock Mesa Southwest of Delta, UT. I operated the mobile cosmic radiation detector they had erected there.)
My then-fiancée (now wife) helped me recognize my strength in writing, my love of story, and, quite frankly, the fact that I could take three semesters back at UVSC (now UVU, where I achieved my AS) or take three more years of near prohibitively difficult classes at the U to achieve my bachelor’s in Physics. I took the better route and graduated in three semesters.
After a number of years, and a number of jobs (ranging from Specimen Processor to editor to software tester), I finally got into technical writing, in which I still work.
I may have always wanted to be a writer, but it has only been since my marriage that I have begun to actively work toward this goal. I write every night that I can. And, currently, it looks like my first published work will be the screenplay I am helping to make into a movie this fall.
