Building Up Buttercup started as the diary of a middle-aged mom in construction school and grew into the script for a romantic comedy based on that unexpected experience. 

Building Up Buttercup: the script

When a divorced empty-nester and failed fashion exec joins an elite social club at the same time she enrolls in blue-collar technical college to revive her stalled creative career, the high-heel-and-hard-hat demands of her opposite and quirky worlds collide and she faces a choice that could destroy the friendships that are building her up.

About the Author

I’m Carrington Fox, a.k.a. Buttercup. After more than a decade as a journalist covering Nashville’s restaurant industry, I enrolled in construction school at Tennessee College of Applied Technology in Nashville to learn to make things with wood instead of words. 

I had an art history degree, an MBA, and three young sons. Most of my classmates were men half my age. It took a minute for us to figure each other out. Technical school was exhausting and humbling, as I stumbled and bumbled through learning to build a house. But new skills made me feel powerful in ways I had never known. And a new perspective brought new confidence to my creative writing:

Thank you for reading my blog and script. I hope they build you up, too.