Update on the re-fi saga: It looks like it’s back on the table. I went back to the bank, and it seems they overlooked something that threw things back in my favor. Which was awesome. When my loan rep told me, I was ecstatic. Then, as I walked back to work–I realized that the profound, … Read more
Very low key New Year’s Eve with family, a great dinner plus games, and fifteen minutes of cringing at the Carson Daly / Ryan Seacrest filler conversations before watching the ball drop. It’s 1:10, the hubby and roommates are at a party, and I’m already in my new leopard-spot flannel pajamas in bed with my … Read more
Ahhhh….almost 1AM again. I wonder what life would be like with a regular eight to nine hours of sleep instead of five and a half. And still, there’s so much I’d like to do with my day even now. I want to watch The Fugitive, I want to read this new book I got, and … Read more
Which is awesome. I’m super grateful. I’m interested to see what happens next. I want say more profound things about that but all the profundity has been squeezed from my brain by sleepiness.I will say that I am thinking about the money in my waking moments that aren’t dominated by expense reports and filing…Should I … Read more
A couple of weeks ago I received a letter from Amazon Studios saying that Children of Others had reached the semifinalist round in its Best Script contest. Yesterday they announced the five finalists, and my script was among them. A kind of fun thing about the contest is that you can actually read the work … Read more
In other news, I hit the 20,000 word mark on the novel I am working on. I’m not too happy with my writing progress on many fronts, but the rock bottom, bare minimum I demand of myself, is that I write 5000 words a week on it, so that I will have a a genuine … 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
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
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