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
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
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
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
Put in a good eight or nine hours today doing a proof pass on Paul’s screenplay, Rock Jocks, before it goes to a producer tomorrow. It was editing, but involved some writing here and there, and it feels good to see how some of my little fixes make things more clear so the story can … Read more
December 31st. The deadline for all scripts to be evaluated in the first round of the Amazon Studios contest. Questions and speculation regarding the nuts and bolts of the competition have been flying around the forums almost since the November 15 debut of the site. This week, AS helped end some of the back and … Read more
Running behind on blog posts, a couple in my mind that are coming soon. In the meantime–Colorado Review has featured my essay, “Luck, Statistics, Magic” on their website. Exciting! You can read it here. Kind of like a long blog post!
Housekeeping:It’s Wednesday night as I begin this blog post–approximately the end of the first full week at Amazon Studios. There are now 1094 entrants on the site. Also, just today, the displays of the films have been altered–from the front page you can now differentiate between movies and scripts, and the number of downloads has … Read more
Day 2 of the Amazon Studios Experiment: After launching at 5pm last night, as of 9:30 this morning, the numbers of entrants has grown from the original seven to 110. The most “popular” script has about 300 downloads. No scripts have any comments or notes as of yet. My script, which, by the way is … Read more