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Brett Nicholson
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Screenwriter of rambunctious eloquence. Sometimes comedy, sometimes comedic, sometimes just dramatic. Hard to believe I was a Nicholl Finalist!

Love movies, beer, music, tacos, and floating in a Texas river. BlueSky since 2023.

Occasionally sarcastic.
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Offered for consideration for #TheGreyList:

QUEEN OF THE SKY

When Nazis invade, young Ukrainian flier Lilya Litvyak battles not only the Luftwaffe but also the sexism and bureaucracy of the Soviet system to become history's highest scoring female ace. Then is forgotten. Until now.

#scriptsky
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Oh no 😱

Is the media finally treating Trump, who is clearly in rapid decline, the way they treated Biden?

It’s about fucking time! Who’s with me?
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Do you have a Christmas script?

Here's mine. Post yours

THREE WISE MEN

Three bumbling buddies lost in the Mexican desert on Christmas Eve must team to help a pregnant young woman trying to hike to Texas before she gives birth in the wilderness.
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Cornbread done. Cranberry fruit relish done. Vegetables prepped. Turkey brining.

Beverage time.

#Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
"You're insane, but in a good way."
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Read up, especially that last part:
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Full disclosure:

I can't imagine any scenario in which I would ever have a need for an advanced all-weather tactical hoodie.
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Repeat this until your brain fully accepts it:

"succeeding [in] the industry has almost nothing to do with how good your script is."

Then repeat it again. Then again.
There’s a reason when I talk and write about writing screenplays, I talk about the *craft* and not the industry. I can write a very compelling screenplay and coach others to do so. But you learn very quickly succeeding the industry has almost nothing to do with how good your script is.
Said with love but there is a tone deafness in the "just write your spec!" advice that seems to be totally ignored in the current climate.

It works if you're repped. If reps are taking new clients. If places are buying A LOT. If rooms are staffing unknowns/lower levels. If not? It's a platitude.
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
No.

Any other stupid questions?
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Every year I end up having to share this, so I'll just share it before I talk about it and spare us all that awkward middle step.

This stuff is GOOOOD.

#Thanksgiving #Cranberry #Recipe
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I really need to find a process that leads to progress. 🤣
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Revenge is a dish best served SASSY. 😎
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Waking is such sleepy sorrow.
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Yes, and also recognize that with creative fields, survivorship bias is real: You hear about full-time creatives with envious career arcs precisely because they've survived in the field where others (for whatever reason and independent of quality of work) have not. This is an important fact.
Would-be/struggling writers can feel like losers or wannabes when they read about other writers writing "full time" or promo'ing their book in various exotic cities. And it's good to recognize that, yeah, sometimes there's another income (or a spouse is helping to pay the bills).
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Maybe I should go read. Social media is making me needlessly angry at idiots and strangers and who needs such shit on Thanksgiving eve.
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Many will understand almost every word of this and laugh.

Many will understand not a bit of it and wonder.

youtu.be/-xncIfcCeM0?...
SEC Thanksgiving - Roll Call Week 13
YouTube video by Matt Mitchell
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Wow! Apple TV has canceled the release for "The Hunt" due to plagiarism.

The director, creator, and screenwriter failed to tell anyone this was actually an adaptation of a novel by Douglas Fairbairn, published in 1973. www.igen.fr/apple-tv/202...
Apple a supprimé la série Traqués (The Hunt) car ce serait un plagiat
Il y a quelques jours, Apple a totalement fait disparaître la série Apple TV The Hunt (Traqués), façon 1984. Les bandes-annonces, communiqués et pages dédiées à la série française avec Mélanie Laurent...
www.igen.fr
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It's another unseasonably warm gorgeous day and I am again thinking about river trips and cold beverages and laughing with friends and I again wonder if I could make a go of organizing a Soggy Writers Long Weekend where folks who have the toughness of emotional hide to tolerate me might congregate.
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Doing The Big Shopping Run for Thanksgiving always makes me want to not give thanks.
a close up of a person 's face with the words " the horror , the horror " written below it
ALT: a close up of a person 's face with the words " the horror , the horror " written below it
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Just because Trump brought RFK Jr. aboard to firm up the kook vote doesn't mean health writers have to keep looking for some kernel of truth in there somewhere.
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Graphic Design remains one the great and under-appreciated arts.

"DAYUM." 😍
These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM