I’ve been in a physically fine, emotionally hard place this past week and over the weekend. Working extra hours at my day job to compensate for the fact that my co-worker left, and feeling conflicted about it. As with many things in my life, it has to do with boundaries, and the kinds of obligations … Read more
Logline: A twelve-year old girl uses magic to resurrect her dead parents, but must struggle to keep her family together as they begin to devolve into zombies. This script is a co-write with my husband Paul based on a draft he wrote his last semester in film school. We’ve been trading passes back and forth … Read more
LOGLINE: A woman battles her shyness, local malice and bureaucracy in order to open a pole-dancing fitness studio in her town. Way back in 2009, when I was still in film school, we had to bring in two ideas for a thesis project. One of my ideas eventually became my thesis script Children of Others. … Read more
Logline: A black woman and a Persian man must navigate their families’ objections and their own preconceptions when they become romantically involved. I’m co-writing the film with Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn, who approached me in the spring of 2013 to help outline a script that used some of her personal experiences and also drew on the … Read more
This weekend I am going to the American Film Market for the first time. What is the American Film Market, you ask? I haven’t seen it yet, but here’s what I know: It’s a big trade show where buyers and sellers of films–finished films, partially finished films, and films that are not yet films but … Read more
Just a quick note to say that my short story “To Fairer Weather,” will be up at Devilfish Review through the month of October. I’m happy about that!
(Note: This post was copied from my blogspot blog, The Daily B, where it was originally published, so I guess what was divided is now unified again.) You might or might not have noticed that I have been writing less about writing on this blog. It does not mean I am writing less about writing … Read more
When it’s really hot on a Sunday, the coffee shops and the few libraries with Sunday hours are overrun with writers and students escaping their air-conditionless environments. The Beverly Hills Library is one of those few that is open, and I am one of the many who has arrived, trolled the back room of tables … Read more
Two pieces of encouragement from the universe last week: A script I’m writing with partner Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn, called Lovers in Their Right Mind, advanced to the second round for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. From the time we were notified until ten minutes to the deadline, we made a marathon push to give the selection committee … Read more
End of the week, beginning of the weekend. Weekends can be kind of tricky because they “feel” like weekends, but really, as a writer with a day job, there’s some heavy lifting to be done on the weekends. Up until today I had several quasi-plans for the weekend–these are plans that people have broached but … Read more