Happy-pocolype New Year my little lambs,

First of all. Do you like the new look? We’re getting minimalist up in here at NikkiYee.com. By next year it will just be a blank, white page!

I apologize for the absence. I’ve been busy clocking in my hours at the movie theater before awards season fully kicks in. How about that Fassbender, huh? Anyways, I’ve also been involved with my first love, screenwriting. Oh, sorry. You didn’t think that I was an actual blogger did you?

Ah yes, the love affair with writing. I distinctly remember the first journal I filled to the brim. It was a $2 notebook with pictures of teddy bears all over it. I received it as a spontaneous present from my mom when I was 8 years old. It was there that I conceived my first novel, a tale about a group of female spies who were sent to recover stolen treasure. It was the Spice Girls meets Lara Croft written by Bret Easton Ellis. Unfortunately, during my subsequent tween and teen years, I didn’t take writing seriously enough to consider it as a lucrative career. I mostly did it as a hobby, writing Hamlet like parts for myself to play on the big screen opposite Orlando Bloom. But generally, I let my way with words always fall secondary to my good looks and nouveau shamanic method acting practices.

Academy Award level acting: Lawrence Olivier only dreams of being this talented.

I wrote my first film when I was 14 years old. It was basically The Royal Tenenbaums on all kinds of acid starring my family, also replacing the incest for Engrish. It was so liberating because it was the first time in my life when I realized that there was more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. Not too long after, the red seas parted, and the flood gates opened, and here I am, writing a blog, a pilot, a spec, 12 screenplays, and providing coverage for 38 more. So why put up with all of the reading, big words, and dangling participles? Well you see, Lady Gaga has this song called “Born This Way“…no I’m kidding. People like to say that where words fail, music speaks. But those people have obviously never heard dialogue before. I like to write because sometimes I wish people were as witty and gorgeous as they are in my head. You like to read it because you wish you were as witty and gorgeous as me.

In all seriousness, stories, and especially screenplays (holla), are a way to express yourself. They allow you to check yourself before you wreck yourself, so you don’t end up punting your horrible boss at your day job. And you all know me, I will absolutely reserve my right to escapism. I will always live my life as if David Lynch is filming it right now, and Saul Bass is composing the opening credits, but I’m writing the scenes.

Speak up or ship up!

xx

N

My writing can beat up your writing!