Writer Stats
- approx 500 poems and song lyrics,
- newspaper articles (news, entertainment, features, Op/Ed – community to major dailies)
- 9/10 Letters to the Editor – Major Dailies – published
- almost a dozen short scripts
- handful of short stories
- 9 three day novel contest entries
- 16 feature scripts, 2 with co-writers
- 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..and actually can’t…
Graphic Design to Social Media Cred
Retail Print shop Graphic Designer and Copy Jockey – Highest Expert Level: Complex International Legal Matters
Social Activist – Media and Marketing campaigns spanning print to internet
Content Provider – created a half dozen Web 1.0 HTML pages, moderator for the First Weekend Club forum, Recovery Process spanned 5 blogs compressed into 1 blog, manages 5 fan clubs on facebook and is creating 2 online free interrelated but modular stand alone workshops for self esteem, wellness and social adjustment.
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.
Nina’s Rules of Writer-ing
- Writing is not talking about what you will write.
- Writing is for an audience, Journaling is for yourself.
- It’s better to be an unproduced writer than an unproductive one.
- 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.
About Writing: Advice, Book/Movie/TV Reviews and Marketing Box Set Reviews – packaging fandom. Reviews & Entertaining Cultural Essays
The Lesbian Charmed Reboot
Skyrim:
- Skyim the Mythic Dawn Bucket
- Skyrim’s Elder Scrolls
- Skyrim: The Markarth House Problem
- Skyrim Diary: Sapphire
Publishing a Letter to the Editor
Books in Context: Frankenstein
X-Files and Physical Formats, eh
BuffyVerse: the Missing Slayer
Power Rangers: Lesbian Controversy
All the Xena Posts so Far
Beauty & The Beast: The Gay Controversy
The Darkest aspect of the Potterverse
Bette vs Joan: The Battle of Baby Jane
Mass Media of and for The Masses
Power and Perception: engendered
Story Telling: Crafting Experiences
TV: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Monkey See TV, Monkey Do Internet
Dolly Parton Pure & Simple 2016
Remakes, Reboots and Rehashes – Blair Witch
Advise about Professional Writing
Pirate Cove: Elvis Bootleg LPs
Cartoon Saturdays to Cartoon Networks
Elvisworld: Album Stickers and Inserts
Sarcasm vs Scarcasm: understanding C-chasm
Rock of Ages: Teen Sploitation
Inclusion should never be political
Gilmore Girls: Pop Up Culture References
Star Trek Franchise Images and Memes
Outlaws vs Gunslingers: American Edition
Book Review: Invisible History of Human Race
Musketeers: Techno-machination Plots
Liberty and Freedom: Viva la Peasants: BBC Muskateers!
Book Review: Elvis has left the building
Gilmore Girls vs Veronica Mars
Drawings and Sketches: images are worth a 1,000 words, but you still need to actually write them down, eh?
Musketeers: Pistols beat Swords
Knightly proclivity war sports – Joan of Arc by Kathryn Harrison
Battlestar Galactica: Many to One
Star Trekking across the Franchise
ONJ and Rick Springfield should duet: Aussie Pop
Xena Warrior Princess: Greece to Rome
PBS-a-thons: Pre-Netflicking : Red Dwarf
The Here’s I Love Lucy Show: She had Balls
Odd Couples and Working Relationships
Red Dwarf’s Kryten vs Crichton of Farscape
Futurama: Bender the Bending Robot
Hitchhiker’s Marvin: TV v Movie
Science Fiction: Techno-Horror
A Shiny New Year: Rankin & Bass
Xmas Specials Past: The Muppets
Xmas Specials Past: Dolly Parton
Holiday Flicks: Queer Christmas
Holiday Flicks: Bad and Badder Santa
Holiday Flicks: Black Christmas
Holiday Flicks: A Christmas Story
Career Ambition Unlocked: Media
Dear Taylor Swift No words for you
Xena and Gabby: In Show Fandom
Elf Bowling: Video Game to Movie
Bloom County: A Wish For Wings That Work
Island of the Blue Dolphin & Zia – Scott O’Dell
Christmas Special: Murray Edition
From Extra to Leader: Ricky Gervais
Writing vs Generating A Report
Sapphic Celluloid: Dyke Flicks
Is it SciAm or SA now? – Scientific American
Pioneering on the range and into space
Book Review: Paul Bernardo & Proceeds of Crime: Book and Movie Rights
When Children Became a Market Demographic
Book Review: The Hollows by Kim Harrison also Elvis Tickle Me the Camp Horror
Vampires: Writer’s Gender Take Away, eh
Book to TV Review: True Blood Southern Vampire Style
TV’s X-Files – the truth is out there
Battlestar Galactica: Officially a Franchise?
Science Fiction Fandom Constructs of Concepts
Subtext: How to know you’re not the main demographic
Movie Trilogy Revue: Harold and Kumar
Farscape: The Muppets in Deep Space
XenaVerse: Heroes and Sidekicks
The Comic Side of Life: not for funphobics
Sitcom Sequels: How Ted Became a Grandpa
Hercules & Xena: Destroyers of Dieties
Folkie Fairy Tales: Stories for the Masses
Families the ever running Sitcoms
Mythbusters vs Bullshit: real tv
Outlaw Heros: Robin Hood vs Zorro
Canada: Gibson BC – Home of The Beachcomber
TV Review: Little Mosque on the Prairie
Growing Up Canadian: Britcoms, Americoms and CanCon
Britcoms: Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister
Science Girl TV Shows: needs to be more
How Newspapers Lost to the Internet
Writing is for the ear to be seen by the eye
Cops n Heros: Procedural Vigilantes
Movie Theatres have always been about the Candy
Movies and the Masses: Refractive Mediums
From the Greek Heros to LOTR: New Zealand
Romances: Re-Used and Remakeovers
Compulsive Orderliness Time Savers for Imaginationaries
Book Review: Blake Synder’s Cat Screenplay Series
Lucy Lawless vs Bats and Locusts
Star Trekking Across the Universe
Literary Literalism: Romanticism Decoded
Writing: Novels vs Screenplays
Pop-Flicks: Family and Holiday Horrorfest
Pop-Flicks: Xenophobic Others and Mutants!
Pop-Flicks: Techno-Anxiety Movies
They Are Coming! They Are Here! They!
POV and Referencing; The Three Day Novel Writing Contest or how to Weekend Crunch Write
There Can Be Only One Hero in a ShowWorld
Double Entendres: Get Thee to a Nunnery
Q-TV: The L Metrosexual Queer as Word Folks
The Movie Meta Date Post About Dating Movies: Pacific Cinematheque
Graphically Charting Data: The Sitcom Formulation
Out of Africa: The Gods Must Be Crazy
Mad Scientists: “Save the Worlders” to SuperVillians
Super Folklore: The World of Weres
The Politico and the Pauper: Dave
80s Punkploitation Flicks: RepoMan
Why isn’t Nautilus the new Jacques Cousteau?
Cult Movies: Somewhere In Time
MovieFranchises: Alien and/or Predator
TV Genre: In and Around The Law
TV Genre: The Medical Proceedureal
80s Movie Couples Slide Through Genres
Writering: Scripts I did not Finish
Movie Standards and Authenticity: Equality is not Served by Nudity
Book Review: Ken Wantabe and Solving Problems
BookWorld: Satire Division: Will Cuppy
TV Review: Yes, Minister & Yes, Prime Minister
TV Concept: In What Reality is that Customer Service?
Coffee Revolutionaries: From Pamphleteers to Bloggers
Joss Whedon Fandom
- TV Review: Dollhouse
- WebbishSeries: The Guild to Dr Horrible
- TV Franchise: Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Angel the Vamp with a Soul
- TV Review: Firefly & Serenity
- Dear Joss Whedon
Planet of the Apes: The Franchise
SciFi: RoboCop – Snidy Commentary Film to CopSchlockTv to Reboot
TV Miniseries to Series: V and V (rebooted)
TV Review: Caprica (BG reboot prequel series)
Writering Characters & RPG Acting
Science Fiction 101: Curiosity trumps Wisdom
80s Movies: Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Rebooting Xena the Warrior Princess Movie
From Southern Vampire to True Blood
TV Review: Dexter – Serial Killer not the Kid’s Cartoon
Xena Warrior Princess: Just Make The Fucking Movie Already!
SciFi Comedies: Quark and Red Dwarf
TV Genre Review: Chosen Family aka Gang of Pals
Science Fiction/Fantasy TV Show Review Round Up
Books Review: The Greif and Get Over Self Help Genre
TV Reviews: the New Nancy Drew – Veronica Mars
Misperceptions: To Kill A Mockingbird
Observing Nature: The story of life, eh?
Rock n Roll Movies: Olivia Newton-John
Religion: The Non/Fiction Quandry
Switchuational Sitcoms: Murphy Brown to Sex in the City
Writering Coinage: “The Tryggvason Collary” to “Poe’s Law”
Advanced Humour 307: Parody and Satire
Raw Recovery Movies: Broken Blossoms
Pulping Fiction: Bodice Rippers vs Zipper Grippers
The Bloom is off the Rose: Broken Blossoms
Writer’s Coinage: From Words to Messages on Memes
Greek 101: The Coffee Table Edition
Expert Humour: Sarcasm and Irony 201
Popular Romance: Predators and Incest
Dear Ellen Page: re: Brigette DePape
Visual Arts: when Photography took over Portraits and changed Painting
Moving Movies: Queen Latifah Does Bessie
Are you sure you are in the right room?
LezFlirt Movie Romance Dating Tips with Whoopie Goldberg
Presley Pictures: Star and then Starring Vehicles: Film to Flicks 101
ElvisWorld: The Exploitation Never Ends
Presley Pictures: The Romance of Citizenship Seeking
The Dark side of the Bodice Ripper: The Romance of Rape
The Message of Science Fiction: Technology without Management Wisdom
USA TV: Before the X-Files, the was Project UFO
80s Movies: reinventing the Teen Date Horror Flick
80s Music: The Second British New Age Wave
80s Teensploitation: Totally Excellent Dude-Off
Indigenous On Film: Represented
Citizen Kane Spoiler: Rosebud wasn’t the Sled
BookWatch: Derivative Works The Bible and Mein Kampf
Gamering: The Tribe 8 RPG
The Science of Fiction from HG To Orson
Understanding Humour 101 – Words and their Concepts
Writering Coinage: Heterophobia
Decoding The Voynich Manuscript Code
Gamering: The Fallout Franchise
WordSmithing: The Art of the Insult
Roman Circusi: The Modern Era (It Happened at the World’s Fair, Roustabout, and The Trouble with Girls)
Presley Pictures: Dolores Hart vs Joan Blackman
Presley Pictures: Co-Starring Ursula Andrews
Presley Pictures: Co-Starring Juliet Prowse
Presley Pictures: Co-starring Shelly Fabres
Presley Pictures: Flaming Star vs Stay Away Joe
Presley Pictures: Professional Elvis
Edutainment: 50 Shades of Grey vs Twilight
TV Review: Extreme Archeology vs Mystery Investigator
Edutainment that Saves Lives: Grey’s Anatomy
Words are rarely only the word
Fey Fairies and Folk Tales: People Power
PopPopPop Culture: Olivia Newton-John
Lezflirt Romances: Detective Style
LezFlirt Romances: Elvis and The Beauty Queen!
Presley Pictures: Sitcom Queens
FlickViews: Rebecca: Pretty Women 1.0
LezLit: The Diaries of Anne Lister
GeekWorld: Star Trek Fan Series concepts
Unique Arena with Universal Appeal (redux 2014)
Dykewriter: Today’s post intentionally left blank
Elvisworld: Priscilla is his ex-wife – not his widow
Impactful Books: Roots and The Redneck Manifesto
Understanding Horror & The Crying Correllation
90s Cartoon: Reboot reboots with a sequel
80s Movies: Eddie and The Cruisers
RIP: Glen Larson the man who coined “frak”
Teensploitation Reviews: River’s Edge
StarTrekverse: Understanding White Male Priveledge
Celebrating Banned Book Week: Little Sister’s Art & Book Emporium tribute
WordVerse: Words, phrases and verses
Presley Pictures: Costume and Period Pieces
BILL HICKS’ PRINCIPLES OF COMEDY
Xenafied: Understanding Subtext
80s SciFi: V from miniseries to series and reboot
Impactful Films: Kramer vs Kramer
Book Review: Mister God, This is Anna
Book Review: Elvis, Hank and Me
The best self help book: The Drunkard’s Walk
Elvis Flicks: Heartbreak Hotel
Elvis Flicks: Elvis Has Left the Building
Presley Pictures: Lonesome Cowboy
Hot Docs: Elvis The Alpha/Omega Performer
Presley Picture: Performing Elvis
Presley Pictures: The Military Movies
Presley Pictures: The 50s Four
Writer Chat: Marketing and branding with Rhonwen Derbez
The Calisphere: Cali T Rossen Fanclub newsletter vol 1
Gagging: The Canadian Hat Trick Joke Structure
The “I had a happy childhood” meme
Dime Novels vs Penny Dreadfuls
Rules of Writering: Script Readings
“Cryability” the ability and the inspiration relation recognition
Happy Feet: the most subversive children’s movie ever?
Raw RomCom Recovery Movies: All About Steve
GamerGoodness: Lords of the Realm
SciFiVerse: The funny side of fandom: V
Recovery Process Book Spotlight: Alison Arngrim
Rebecca: The original Flashdance and Pretty Women
Creating Characters and worlds
From Nina’s Nonsense to Heathers
Raw Recovery ShowVerse: Xena The Warrior Princess
Movie Review: History of the World, Part 1
SciFiVerse: 1970s Battlestar Galactica
Raw Recovery Books: A Romanov Fantasy
Glee: the Original Ending was Ballad of a Teenage Queen?
Life Lessons from a Movie About Life
the hour of tv that could save your life
ElvisWorld: Books to look out for
RoW: Is it a Feature or an MOW
Recovery Process Books: Wisdom of the Zen Masters
Recovery Process TV shows: Dexter
Recovery Movies: the revenge factor
One of these days – right to the moon!
Recovery Movies: The PhantomTollboth
ElvisWorld! Singer Present Elvis aka The Comeback Special
Gamer Goodness: The Fallout Franchise
Science Fiction and other truths
Bad Dreams and a Nightmare on Elm Street 3
A nod to the father of blogging: Samuel Pepys
Recovery Process Feature DVD: School House Rock
The Mormon underside of Battlestar Galactica
Star Trek: The Future Is Inclusive – the Secret Scientology of Star Trek
Our Daily Elvis: Glasses – characters with an inner Elvis
A Halloween Screening: Mad Monster Party
Rules of Writering: Sex Scenes
If I could coffee with anyone: Albert Brooks
Nina Reads! The Trials of Lenny Bruce
three of 13 things that do not make sense
The Last Starfighter 25th anniversary edition
For the Non/Conspirationally Inclined, both at the same time?
From Commercial to sitcom: Cavemen
Earth’s Children… because we all are, eh?
Domestic Divaspirations: Peg Bracken
Particular Particles: The Metaness of Comparative Comedy
Showgirls…..hey… it was only $5
Shattering Utopia and other myths
Dilbert: The Complete Series Review
The Hobbit: There and Back Again
Raw Recovery Movie Review: Monsters Vs Aliens
RHPS: 15thversay Box Set Comparison
When Night is Falling: The Box Set
Recovery Movie Review: Pirate Radio
Nina Reads! Spit Delaney’s Island
Nina Reads! At Home On The Stroll
The Star Trek Verse Noteable: 40 years ago today
Selected Reading: Housebroken by Leona Gom
Because awkward is not seductive – The Social Lessons of Dr Horrible
Life is about the watering hole
Movie Review: Yellow Submarine
Good Grief – documentary proposal package
The Weekender – working with actors – tips for writers
Iconic Sitcoms: The Conformist Overtext
Iconic Sitcoms: The Difference
Words, words everywhere, and not a one to think
Book Review: A Romanov Fantasy
Book Series Reverie: Spellsinger
Raw Recovery Movie Feature: The King’s Speech
Book Review: Boomer – The Railroad Memoirs of Linda Niemann
Movie Recovery Review: Julie and Julia
The Family Tree has many branches
Nina’s Rules of Writering: SAY IT
John Truby on why most screenwriters fail
Originals vs Reboots: Battlestar Galactica – with Robert Peate
Today’s Word: -Ebos; variations: Pla- and No-
Change Yourself, Change the World
My Fave Movie Duo x Three – Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Paul – bonus feature: Fido
Writering: Crafting Your Treatment
The Importance of Family – inspiration and impact
Happy Feet – the most subversive movie ever?
The Story Telling Process – starting with a concept
A trilogy of young reader book recommendations
The Piano: personal power in an impersonal world
Recovery Process: Relatable Movies – writing techniques
Imagination extends the limits of reality – supernatural rom coms lighter side
Elvis World.. books and Biopics
Putting it out to the universe – The Stockard Channing Show
Recovery Process Movie Spotlight: Bridesmaids
Black Adder Christmas Special Reversals
Somewhere in Time – romance and femmes
Being There – Cold War Classics and Kid Flicks
Making new friends: Afternoon Flick Picks: Geek Guys
Afternoon Flick Picks: Grrl Power
Humour Hatrick: The set up, the reveal, the reversal
TV and Movies: the last common framework
Watching fave actors challenges
Elvis on BluRay: Love Me Tender
Bodice Ripper 101 to Chick Lit 201 to Supernatural Rom Coms 301
Stories Re-Told – Presley Pictures: Frankie and Johnny
Now Playing! Movie Matinee Recommendations
Villains are a matter of perspective
Any TV show can make an impact
Life: the cycle of famine and feast
Docutainment: Playing in Possibility
Scripts: from inspiration to final draft
Humour – it lifts and separates
Life: any way you slice it, there’s something funny
Viewing the World Through a Particular World View: POV
Journeys are about the discovery process
April 12 – Thoughts about writing, researching…
- Amusing Yourself: Making Memes
- About Writing: The more you research, the less you re-write
- Be the Change
Humour: it’s about dividing the audience
Horror from imagined to experienced
Everything old is renewed again the new 10 commandments of screenwriting
Making the most of Written Exams
writing what you know – Truth is not as subjective as people think
The evolution of television sexuality
Possibility is what makes dreams into reality
Story telling vs pitching your stories
The Importance of Understanding your fan base – the hard to the soft
Dreaming in colour – reviews – Veronica Mars and The Closer
From Vampyre to Vampire to Vamps
What the heck is “CanCon” anyway?
Getting to the heart of the story
Epic tales that sweep one’s feet
From Script to Screen: Step 1 The Script
Outrageous Strategies for Success
the secret to humour is being funny
The Elvis Picture – sub category – social injustice
Hope Struggle and Change – conspiracy theories, public image and creating/manipulating them
Three Day Novel Contest – Experimental Novel – the Found Format
One Day at a Time – RIP Bonnie Franklin – tv sitcoms comparibles
the problems of “slice of life stories”
CanCon! Canadian Films and Industry
Writers and Audience – book covers and market niche pulp novels
Truth is stranger than fiction
Ultimate Public Domain: Folk Tales
The secret to comedy is essential painful truth
Renaissance Dyke likes movies and walks on the beach…
Story Sources books to movies
Sex: the source of our power and insecurities
Inquisitive Minds vs Inquisition Minds
Review: Gilmore Girls and characters who create self adversity Is surviving really a measure of strength?
Writer Considerations about Biographical movies This is Elvis
Understanding World Realities: new vs old – for script world research and character concepts
writers should be engaged Outside Observers
Beauty and Humour stem from pain
Knowing from experience or statistics
Believing, don’t know what to – overused dialog
Creating a sitcom by Chuck Lorre
Moments are snapshots of emotional beats
The greatest speech never made
religion vs culture (research and presentation tips)
Book Review: The Tupelo-Memphis Murders: A Psychological Study of Self-Destruction and Murder!
Sir Robinson TED Talk – Education and Creativity
Movie Review: Star Vehicles – Olivia Newton John & John Travolta – Two of a Kind
Story Telling vs Telling Stories
Mental Health and the Creative Arts
The Most Famous Hoax of All – War of the Worlds Broadcast
Because Tomorrow is another Day
Because you can’t make up this kind of dialog
Online Writer Groups: The Screenplayers
Tryggvason is my people. My name is Nina
Advance your entertainment industry career – Flash Forward Institute
Geek Culture – Scifi/Fantasy Fandom – mash ups, crossovers, slash
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
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Hi Kath!
wow that’s 2 people from facebook following to my blog.
bonus day.
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Oh. Um. thank you.
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