Scandal Review 4.1: OMG WHAT IS JAKE DOING

I promised I'd make a video but.... I have a lot of other things I'm doing in life so this is hard. I have made a concerted effort to separate the actors from the characters as we all should! This ish is real.

• I want what she's having
• What is Jake doing to her in that chair
• Screw you Olivia. You are part of the 1%. Your dad sent you to LIVE on an island forever that's not on google maps. EVERYTHING IS ON GOOGLE MAPS!
• There is no such thing as coming back from vacation peacefully
• Scandal gives me too many feelings.
• I WILL work with Shonda one day.
• They have been sexy-fying Abby since season 2. That's some pageant hair!
• Huck... I will always want to take care of you
• Mellie is giving the realness
• Mellie... they told you it was apple juice and you were like.. NEXT
• "These panties came straight from the dryer." -- people... basic television is officially changed. OMG
• Omg... why is this streaming on my internet chopping it up. Switching to HuluPlus on Tv
• Fitz... sometimes I feel like I'm Olivia and we are together. Stop making us crazy. But... they're playing our music!
• If one more idiot says something stupid/racist about Shonda.... I just can't. She single-handedly transformed ABC. #SITDOWN
• I really want my friend Carl Clemons-Hopkins to be featured on this show. 
• I will be purchasing a Scandal coat from the Limited
• Mellie broke my heart when she visited her son's grave
• The world of Scandal is messed up. Oy Vey.
• When's the last time that someone saw Olivia eat on this show? Or is wine a food group now?
• Julia? as if! Let's be real... the only name a boss bitch like Olivia can have is #Nickclette #Marilyn
• I'm having too many feelings Scandal. You are like the first relationship.
• I just learned People magazine tweeted something racist about Viola. @whitepeople stop it. 
• I know, by heart, the music that they play when Fitz and Olivia are referenced together.
• Abby damn near cussed her man out. #checkabitch "You ended us
• But abby... B613 IS SCARY
• #arewegladiatorsorarewebitches
• Omg.... who in the writing room first thought of that? We need to be friends.
• The debate about sexual assault, this show isn't playing around. Good tv! Good commentary.
• "It's 1976 down there". WHAT!!!!! omg
• I repeat. Omg.... who in the writing room first thought of that? We need to be friends.
• Shonda, we need to work together. Lets be honest.
• I just remembered that Jake did something to kerry in that chair.
• Omg... Jake said she couldn't talk. #myturn #hardtogetitupaftersexualassaultconvos
• Scandal... I'm... I can't quit you. Why!?
• Omg I just remembered Jake ..... Why did Felicity dump you?
• Scott Foley has 3 kids? Wtf!
• Olivia's dad.... Olivia's mom.... the fact that Olivia hasn't killed anyone (as far as we know) is a godsend
• Planning your friend's funeral sucks... omg feelings.
• Scandal can never end
• Scandal has to end... I can't watch tv like this when i'm 109 (I will live forever. Amen)

Too good. Too bad. Soo many feelings

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I Am A Badass.... (I Think I Can. I Know I Can. I Will.)

I am working to transform my stories from the written page into fully mounted productions, ie getting them mounted on a stage or edited into a film. However, I am, by nature, someone who wants to know everything about a task/project/place before I make a single step in its direction. I want to feel fully equipped to handle every possible mishap and figure out its solution. Call me the Queen of Research if you want... actually don't call me that. There is nothing appealing or badass about that title. Ick. Next.

But, since I am attracted to badasses and I want to be one, one day, I have force myself to get over my bullshit anxiety. Badasses don't need to know everything to make a move.Well behaved women rarely make history. No guts no glory. I'm looking especially to AFFRM (African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement) founder, television & film director, and one of my biggest inspirations Ava DuVernay who says

“You can’t move forward when your actions hinge on someone else doing something for you. All the time you spend focused on trying to move ahead in the industry, trying to grab, is time you’re not doing the work. Waiting for permission, waiting for help, waiting for understanding is not doing. You gotta knock it off."

Several things help me move forward.

• I don't have all the financial support needed to endow me with the uber-confidence needed to pursue my ridiculous ambitions. And yet support systems, whether they be a partner/spouse, family member, or (ride-or-die) friend, are paramount in achieving anything. No one achieves anything great without help. But I do have some support. I have a few pillars that I can lean on when my confidence is shot.

• Collaboration is fucking key. Doing things by yourself, in the grand scheme of things, albeit safe, is stupid. Supremely stupid. Sure, you won't disappoint others by failing them and they can't hurt you by not following through. But the depth and level of success you can attain by working with a group of contributors working and riffing off of one another's ideas is enough to make me run headfirst into a jazz jam session. (I think there's a metaphor in there. Go with it. I mean it!)

• Being a boss is cool. Rappers talk about it, CEOs talk about it, Presidents talk about it. But all jest aside, I'm super excited to make an impact. I'd rather embarrass myself in an attempt to make something that matters to me, and perhaps others, than being jealous of someone else who had the courage to go for it.

So with those tools in hand, I am putting my producer hat into the next gear. I'm working harder than ever, and it hurts. And? 

Help Me Edit Episode 1

Hey Guys!

Remember the episodes that I spoke about writing in this post here? Well, I've published episode 1 on Scribd.com! Click the link below. I'd love any feedback from you guys to help me make it better. Let me know what you like, don't like, and are curious about! Let's get editing.

Siblings - Episode 1 - Draft 5 by Nickclette Izuegbu

Episode 3 Has Arrived....

Today I am meeting with a mentor writer friend of mine to get some feedback on episodes I've written for my most recent webseries currently entitled "Siblings." (My family is secretly hoping they are(not) featured in it. LOL.

I'm so excited. I may or may not cry. I may or may not get defensive. I may or may not want to quit afterwards.


Yeah... that's a crock. I'm going to love every uncomfortable awesome moment of it. The part that's probably going to be the most annoying isn't that I'll have to make edits... I love edits. That part that's going to be the most annoying is that now I have to start working on my next project. Idea development never ends. You have to keep writing. There isn't one idea. It's not genius to just write one piece. Genius and excellence develop from a disciplined practice. We don't just have the MacBook... we have the iPad, the iPod, the... well you see where I am going with this. Keep working! guys