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Workshopping It
I have been trying to establish a new daily routine. Not that the routine itself is varied, but the context and purpose of it. Scope and magnitude. Grounding in reality isn’t hard when you’ve been...
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Nina’s Nonsense – the High School Article
Sardis Secondary School Paper The Falcon Press Masthead The paper cost a quarter and they often made buying it conditional on being able to attend events like lunchtime sock hops. Dances. Boys on one...
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The original Girlfriends breast cancer spread
in 1998, I submitted the 2 breast cancer articles to Girlfriends magazine. The timing was perfect they were planning a whole feature section and this is it. The reprint only included 3 of the original...
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Shattering Utopia and other myths
After I left Angles, I wrote for Xtra West under their first 2 editors. Even though, I had really hoped for the job myself. As it turns out, I would have left under the same circumstances as Cindy...
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The Day
starts again I roll out tears roll down camera face avoiding frown gloom and doom grim to the rim same old, same new it’s finally dark the little death offlining repeats again
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Nina’s True Tech Support Tales!
Caller: I can’t open the attachment in email. Nina: What program is the attachment in? Caller: I just said it was in email.
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Unfinished
thoughts in words propelled by emotion energy taking thought beyond mere words emotions energy intensity mangled tangled strangled just words without action
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Recovery Process Books: Wisdom of the Zen Masters
The body is the wisdom tree, the mind like a bright mirror stand Always strive to wipe it clean making sure that no dust lands - Shenxiu Wisdom has never been a tree, And the bright mirror has no...
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Treatment: Queer Robin Hood
Queer Robin Hood A few years ago, I had an opportunity to pitch a script idea for a gay Robin Hood movie I decided to revisit the lore around the Robin Hood characters and, in addition to making Robin...
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Upon a Dead Child (circa 1984)
As if Sleeping, a child lies quietly, curled into a ball not dissimilar to the cat in the corner I watch the child for a single solitary sign of life within the child’s unmoving tiny breast Golden...
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Grendel (1986)
beams of light separating my realm of dark forever in night an impermeable membrane shutting out all joy efficient dragonsbane behind the light beams is all that I desire my world rips at the seams the...
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Crystalized Catharsis
The closest I got to being part of film was this 2004 short film. It cost about $400, mostly for the camera tapes and food for the cast and crew. Filmed in my house and at a local nearby school....
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Too Young to Go (Jon-Erik Hexum) – 1984ish?
You came careening onto the scene As if, from another planet you came With wavy hair and eyes of blue And you put your claim on fame You worked and sweated, perfecting your skill But no matter how...
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Hemmingway vs Tryggvason
For saddest, shortest story: Hemmingway For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Used. Tryggvason “I Love You.” CLICK Dial Tone.
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TV Made Me…
Original Script, based on a theatre comedy monolog by Nina Tryggvason INT. THEATER STAGE. NON-TIME A TV showing only static sits on a stool. The TV is the only source of light. A woman steps in front...
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Screenplay/Horror: Election Night
Election Night by Nina Tryggvason EXT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – NIGHT A car pulls into the parking lot. MOUSTACHED MAN and RED HAT WOMAN get out and look around. RED HAT WOMAN Are you sure this is the...
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Screenplay: Coffee
WGA # 873781 COFFEE A Screenplay By Nina Tryggvason Logline: Girl and Boy meet Girl. INT. KAIT’S KITCHENETTE – NIGHT. Coffee drips into a glass carafe. The drips finish. KAIT THORESON (shoulder...
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Screenplay: The Weekender
5 wimmin = 3 crushes and 2 romantic plots x 1 weekend INT. JACQUE’S CAFÉ – FRIDAY MORNING. The cafe has a funky atmosphere. TWO PATRONS are dining near the window. At a middle table are KAIT THORESON...
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