barrington99@gmail.com My friend Dave has this interesting Substack newsletter you can subscribe to (for free!) called Shuffle Synchronicities where every morning he shuffles his Spotify playlist and then talks about whatever song comes up, also staying alert for possible synchronicities — or connections with his own life. He invited me do a guest post, and here’s … Read more
Some people are good at tweet-length writing. I’m not. Some people are good at 500 word or 1000 word “flash fiction.” That’s usually not me either. I had a class once where each week we wrote from a prompt and the limit was 800 words. That was fun. But later, when I went back to … Read more
Today I saw that The Hollywood Reporter published this article last week. The article is mostly about another project at Jumpcut, the studio that has optioned a pilot I wrote called Jack 9, but Jack 9 is mentioned here in the subheading… And later in the article, I am named in conjunction with the project. … Read more
A notable moment I want to record it before it passes too far into the past: AMERICANISH, a film that Paul produced, had its debut in San Francisco last weekend at CAAMFEST where it won the audience award! In an only-barely post-Covid-vaccine world, the viewing was both virtual geo-locked to California, and live, at a … Read more
Here are my top 3 writing projects for Mar/April plus some assorted stuff I’ve been feeding my brain. 3 THINGS I’VE BEEN WRITING: THE INFLUENCER (spec feature)Zero draft ⅔ done in April. Continues on the front burner in May.When the manager / best friend of a struggling social media influencer cuts a deal for her client … Read more
It’s a beautiful sunny Sunday in April and this blog is officially neglected. The problem with neglecting something — like your student loans or cleaning the kitchen junk drawer— is that the longer you leave it, the more daunting it feels to come back to it, which makes it take even longer – so when … Read more
Wow, remember January? What a clusterf*ck… …and yet we persevered. Here’s where some of the hours went. WRITING SHELL (short story /spec fiction /world building for possible feature)To revive her flagging marriage and career, an aging woman goes to a high-end spa for a mysterious treatment. Published in February, in The One That Got AWay, … Read more
Yesterday, I got an email from Screencraft letting me know that “Shell” was now a finalist in their Cinematic Short Story Competition. Looks like that means the top 50. Not bad! We’ll see what happens in March. Also in “Shell” news. I opened “the Twitter” and saw I was mentioned in a tweet from Kandisha … Read more
Volume 3 of Women of Horror is out now, and I am in it!
Even if our new president seems decent and kind, even if the poem was amazing, even if that yellow coat was to die for, it is not permission for me to let my sigh of relief be the precursor to sinking back onto the soft cushion of complacency and watching others do their jobs.