Writer Stats
- approx 500 poems and song lyrics,
- newspaper articles (news, entertainment, features)
- almost a dozen short scripts
- handful of short stories
- 9 three day novel contest entries
- approximately 16 feature scripts
- reviewed over 300 spec scripts spanning three peer review websites
- too many press releases, newsletters, web page content to list
- too many Briefing Notes, Reports, Memos, Correspondence, Powerpoint Presentations, Oral Presentations, Written Submissions, to list
Production Experience
Television – Western Cable 4 – over 150 hours of in studio (recorded and live broadcast) and on location – call in shows, themed talk shows, arts and sports events of local community interest.
Experience: sound, lighting, cameras, chyron graphics, editing.
Vancouver Film School – Filmmaking level one, class 16, 1992.
Lavender Productions:
– Chrysalis – Self Produced short film
– Breast Implant Conference – Vancouver Women’s Health Collective – UBC Hospital produced documentation of the event – filmed and edited.
Other Experience
Journalism/Photographer
- news, arts, features and community beat – Xtra! West and Angles (also News Editor…)
- Arts Article – Surrey Leader
- Op Ed – Vancouver Sun
- news, photography, arts reviews at the student papers of Simon Fraser University, Kwantlen College and Sardis Secondary School.
Stu
Disc Jockey – SFU’s Campus Station – then called CJOR
Acting Classes and performances through High School and into University
Technical Theatre – university
Choir from elementary school through High School. Now a just in the shower or in the car sort of thing.
Marketing and Promoting Yourself as a writer
Be a subject matter expert blogger – book reviews
Leveraging Social Media – bonus social media tip videos from Suzanne Lyons, Snowfall Films & Flash Forward Institute
Fanclub Newsletter vol 2 – high school acting/writing origins (teen poet blog link)
Social Media – Facebook groups and pages – Bonus: Inside Nina’s Fan Club – view #3
Social Media – Fan Clubs – Vicki Wagner
Fanclub Newsletter vol 3 – Career Planning and …
Social Media – Publicity plus support – networks – professional becomes personal
Professional relationships and networking
The future of autographs – & gaining fans (Shut in Stand Up)
Fan Club Newsletter California Dreaming
Industry Networking – support, supporters and all types
Nina’s Rules of Writer-ing
- Writing is not talking about what you will write.
- Writing is for an audience, Journaling is for yourself.
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It’s better to be an unproduced writer than an unproductive one.
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When you write IT, it’s yours, when you sell IT, it’s theirs.
- To be sell-able, it can’t be about you, it must be about the audience.
- Understand the Demographics of your Audiences: Fan Core, Friends of Fans, General Punters, the Indifferent to the Hostile.
A blogdex of fiction blogs – short stories or short scripts, or anything to do with writing.
Writer Chat – conversations between writers and between this writer and performers. These chats span all my blogs, so offsite links are noted
Writer Chat 83 – On being a writer
Writer Chat 82 – Context and Subtext – Metaverse to Motifs
bonus: Writer Chat 81 – the Black List – Create a Verse
Writer Chat 80 – Comedy gags and Character Perspective
Writer Chat 79 – Loglines, Pitching, Story Development to Selling
Writer Chat 77 chatting about chatting with writers (big name ones too!)
Writer Chat 76 “lesbian” porn – Shut In Stand Up
Writer Chat 75 Television’s Influence
Writer Chat 74 – Breaking Up Is Hard To Do – the Digital Divide (Shut In Stand Up)
Writer Chat 73 – Writing What you Know (Lezflirt – Poly, D/L or just a cheater)
Writer Chat 72 – Zoetrope Review Contest
Writer Chat 71 – Zoetrope Office – Emergency Preparedness (Stand In Shut Up)
Writer Chat 70 – Promotion – self and cross supported (Screenplay Theatre, Ken Mora)
Writer Chat 69 – Geekdom (star wars, DVD special editions, fanedits, childhood science fiction)
Writer Chat 68 – PJ McIlvaine – Raping Republicans
Writer Chat 67 Equality and the Social Contract – Dianne Cameron, Stuart Creque
Writer Chat 66 – Silver Screen – with Gordon Meyer, PJ McIlvaine, Melody Simmons
Writer Chat 65 Profile – Bhaga d’Auroville (Lab of Evolution) – Gratitude
Writer Chat 64 – Vicki Wagner – Bible as Literature – Supernatural Fantasy, not even historical fiction. …not.just.saying
Writer Chat 64 Profile – Siolo Thompson – graphic media artist – paintings, drawings
Writer Chat 63 – Vicki Wager – Lesbian Pulp Novels – culture and subtext for subcultures (Lezflirt Blog)
Writer Chat 62 – Fandom and Critique of popular culture
Writer Chat 61 – Gordon Meyer – volunterism
Writer Chat 60 Publicity – with Vicki Wagner (comedian, performer)
Writer Chat 59 PROFILE: Pj McIlvaine (screenwriter)
Writer Chat 58 – PROFILE: Melody Simmons (novelist) bonus writer tip!
Writer Chat 57 – Flirting dialog vs Friendly Banter – actor delivery makes all the difference (subtext)
Writer Chat 56 – building relationship networks
Writer Chat 55 – Publicity (shut in stand up)
Writer Chat 54 Gratitude and Sunshine (Living Well)
Writer Chat 53 with Vicki Wagner re: Book recommendations for the entertainment industry inclined
Writer Chat 52 with Kevin Karstens re: Trilogies and ratings
Writer Chat 51 with Pj McIlvaine and regarding storytelling
Writer Chat 50 with K’Anne Meinel re: atheism
Writer Chat 49 with K’Anne Meinel Shut in Stand Up Lezflirt
Writer Chat 48 – writing porn and more (shut in stand up)
Writer Chat 47 – Marriage and Equality
Writer Chat 46 – comedy to drama
Writer chat 45 – visualizations towards dating and mating (lezflirt)
Writer Chat 44 – superstition (Shut in Stand Up)
Writer Chat 43 – Strong Female Characters
Writer Chat 42 – Pain and pain management (living well)
Writer Chat 41 – Separation of Hollywood and Religion
Writer Chat 40 – True Love and Truest Love (Lezflirt)
Writer Chat 39 – community, networking leads to freindships
Writer Chat 38 – With Comedian VICKI WAGNER – writing what you know
Writer Chat 37 – goofing around – but also an editing tip – don’t miss this one!
Writer Chat 33 – Heart Smart (Living Well)
Writer Chat 31 – Ratings and Reviews
Writer Chat 29 – Social Media (Shut in Stand Up)
Writer Chat 28 – Parenting (shut in stand up)
Writer Chat 27 – Health and Wellbeing (Living Well)
Writer Chat 26 the secret to humour (shut in stand up)
Writer Chat 25 – Layperson Opinion vs Educated Opinion
Writer Chat 24 – why people shouldn’t piss off writers (Shut in stand up)
Writer Chat 23 – Politics and mental health
Writer Chat 22 – Humour and Catharsis (Living Well)
Writer Chat 20 – confidentially butch to butch and shoe porn (lezflirt)
Writer Chat 19 – battle of the genders
Writer Chat 17 – Legit Rape the mindfuck
Writer Chat 14 – American Education and Politics ….
Writer chat 9 Expanded post edition (Living Well)
Writer Chat – Gun control and the Canada/America Cultural divide
Writer Chat 9 – Sexuality (Lezflirt)
Writer Chat 5 – Credible Hulk (Shut in Stand Up)
Writer Chat 4 – society-and-stereotypes
Writer Chat 3 – Black Cats (Shut in Stand Up)
Writers chat about the entertainment industry (shut in Stand Up)
About Writing: Advice and considerations for newbies and word smithing
Smut – Sexuality, Censorship, Subtext and Pop Psychology
Your book will change the world
Art Therapy, Creativity and Recovery (Living Well)
Creative Perspective: writing what you know or experience (Living Well)
Lesbian Movies – Cultural Connectedness (Living Well: Second Chances and to the Next Chapter
Queer Sensibilities – Queer Literati
Slash Fan Fiction (Lezflirt)
Remembering Lavender Productions
Writing Concept-: Subtext is about knowing your segmented audience
filmmaking and screen writing books-and-resources
Peer Review Websites – how people behave puts on context on their credibility
Where do you get your ideas from? Life and In Memorium: Debbie Knowlton-Taylor
Writing for multi-level audiences – insiders and punters
Wordsmything (Shut In Stand Up)
Nina’s Rules of Writering – Subtext
Nina’s Rules of Writering – Comedy and Humour
Unique Arena with Universal Appeal
Three Day Novel Writing Tips n Tricks
Selected Writings by Nina Tryggvason
Confessions of a Teenaged Poet – Blog collection of approximately 500 poems – High School to College era
Shut In Stand Up – current day comedy writing
Lez Flirt – An ongoing manual and workshop to teach people how to flirt. Lezflirt Workshop 1994 through incarnations as a manual, a humour essay in Lezzie Smut (Vancouver lesbian porn magazine) then a website under Web 1.0 and re-imaged as a blog in Web 2.0, where Lezflirt 101, now includes 201, 301 and 401 level courses. All free and online.
Living Well – a sub blog of Nina’s Garden that is essay and information pertaining to health and well being pertaining to the individual experience of existence, rather than the more collective global view reflected on this main blog, Nina’s Garden.
Short Film Scripts
Treatments
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