barrington99@gmail.com Paul will be directing his first feature length film in less than a month! This is a big announcement that doesn’t feel quite as big around here because it’s been in the works for awhile. Sometime last year, a friend, Sheri, who produces independent films, approached Paul. Her company (comprised of herself and her husband) … Read more
Wherein I simply say–I am beginning my rewrite today. I have been putting it off. I have been mulling it over. I have been contemplating big changes. I may or may not (mostly likely not) have all these changes done by the upcoming deadline of february 28, but whatever I have done will constitute the … Read more
“Time Lock” is a Dramatica term. I’ve never fully embraced Dramatica–mostly because it’s confusing to learn, and I like the mode of story analysis that they use at my spelunking school–but I like the term “time lock,” which means–roughly–that a tension in the story will have to resolve at a certain point, because there is … Read more
Due in great part to friends like Laura on the Left, (whose blog you see in the sidebar of this one) and others, my Facebook and Twitter accounts have kept events in Egypt present in my mind for the past few weeks. Perhaps because of this, my ears perk when they discuss it on NPR, … Read more
A big thing on my mind these days is that I’m traveling to Costa Rica in a few weeks. My friend is organizing some arts-related events for International Women’s Day, and he asked me to give a workshop. I’m actually doing two workshops–a half day, and one that is a bit longer. It’s the first … Read more
At the end of January, the first script winners were announced. Congratulations to Marty Weiss and Richard Stern, as Amazon Studios describes them, a “couple of dads.” A little close reading reveals that they are also a couple of film school grads. Weiss has an MFA from NYU, and Stern is “ten years past his … Read more
One night at a party, a friend and classmate, J, said, “I check your blog every so often, to see what you’ve been up to. Essentially I just skim through it, saying “Barrington did something on this day, she didn’t get anything done on this day. She did something here, she didn’t do anything here.” … Read more
First Pluto is no longer a planet…and now this: Throwing much of my pre-teen book collection into irrelevancy, there is a new astrological sign: Ophiuchus. Lots of articles about it–but none of them include advice on how to pronounce it. It’s “off-ee-u-kuss,” with the strongest emphasis on the “u.” I know because I heard Rachel … Read more
The biggest news is probably that the 50 semifinalists for the first round of competition were announced on Wednesday. (Big congrats to any semifinalist who might be reading this!) Six finalists will be announced this upcoming week. Those who know me will want to know if Children of Others was on the list of 50. … Read more
Some days take a toll on one’s morale, and for me, this was one. It was a long day–on campus for eleven hours. It’s funny, as this morning I was contemplating the energy and bit of hope I felt, and wondering if it would survive the day. Some days it does survive–it only takes an … Read more