Segun Iwasanmi
© Segun Iwasanmi | ™The Man With The Story.
Book Writer | Screen and Scriptwriter | Creative Fiction writer | Book Editor.
I help people turn rough ideas into bold stories that work
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The Scene That Broke The Whole Script
© Segun Iwasanmi ✍️✍️✍️ There was a time I almost stopped watching Nollywood completely. Back then, what irritates me are those movies where everybody is talking, shouting, threatening and crying but somehow nothing is really happening? Before the first thirty minutes finish, you have already guessed who will die, who will marry, and who will suddenly confess a secret they have been keeping since secondary school. The whole thing felt like a very long family meeting with better li...
They Don't Train Men Anymore — Part One
© Segun Iwasanmi “This Thing Called Life" Series — Episode Twenty-Four 💊💊💊 I was walking somewhere I won't tell you, minding my business the way I always mind my business, which is to say not very well, because I have this habit of noticing things. I was passing two guys standing by the side, deep in gist, they were leaning slightly into each other and their voices are low but their faces are loud. I wasn't trying to hear them oo. But one sentence just flew out and landed on me...
Your Book Idea Is Not The Problem
© Segun Iwasanmi ✍️✍️✍️ You know something that used to surprise me? Somebody can sit beside a bus window for thirty minutes and come down with five story ideas. Another person can stay inside the same bus for the same thirty minutes and come down with only transport fare headache and sweat. Shebi nah the same bus, same road, same potholes, how did they now have completely different experiences?. I told you all on Monday that ideas are everywhere, buses, family meetings, market no...
Books I read
I'm addicted to reading, It boosts my creativity so well. Here are the books I read in the month of May. I'm willing to send the PDFs freely to anyone willing to get it (One per time), comment the book name and I'll send it to you. (War With Legion is exempted, it comes with a price tag of #1,000) The First Epistle Of Peter — The Holy Bible — May 2nd The Second Epistle Of Peter — The Holy Bible — May 5th. War With Legions — Segun Iwasanmi — May 5th The General Epistle of James ...
Why My Reach Dropped Overnight — Final Part
© Segun Iwasanmi The Algorithm Of Heaven's Media — Chapter Eleven 💊💊💊 … He didn't reach for a scripture. He just sat there with the weight of what he now understood, which was that he had spent weeks building something beautiful from the outside, and he had been so busy admiring the outside that he had not noticed there was nothing holding it up. The wind had not blown yet. But he was the last person in the room to know it was coming. He looked at the Phone of Destiny one final ...
Why My Reach Dropped Overnight — Part Two
© Segun Iwasanmi The Algorithm Of Heaven's Media — Chapter Eleven 💊💊💊 … He had been dry all week. His morning syncs had become mechanical, the kind of thing you do because you have always done it and stopping would feel worse than continuing. His evening prayers were races against his own eyelids. The exams were coming, his pocket was thinning in the way pockets thin at the end of the month, students call it Ìgbèyìn Adeyemi, and somewhere between all of that, he had started wa...
Why My Reach Dropped Overnight — Part One
© Segun Iwasanmi The Algorithm Of Heaven's Media — Chapter Eleven 💊💊💊 Christian didn't delete the post. His thumb hovered over the screen for a long time, but it never moved. He told himself it wasn't a lie. He had written those words himself, and he had believed them when he wrote them, and people were finding comfort in them. What kind of person takes away another person's comfort? He locked his phone, dropped it on the wooden table, and tried to sleep. Sleep, which had always ...
The Version Of Life We Were Sold Was A Bit Fraudulent
© Segun Iwasanmi Friday “Talk Am As E Be!" — 22/05/2026 💊💊💊 This thing I noticed these days is funny. You can open your phone to reply one message and somehow, thirty minutes later, you’re deep inside somebody’s vacation pictures, somebody’s engagement post, somebody saying “my people” under a group photo, and you just keep scrolling. Then you drop your phone and stare for a second. I don't know how to explain it, but sometimes it leaves this small emptiness that feels ...
Inspiration Won't Finish It
© Segun Iwasanmi ✍️✍️✍️ There was a period I used to think creativity alone could carry anything. Ah. My head used to be a busy market. Sometimes I would imagine a matchstick suddenly opening eyes and becoming angry because people keep striking its head every day. Sometimes I would imagine myself with superpowers chasing wicked political leaders all over town, and the funny part was that once they corner me, I would divide into many versions of myself just to confuse everybody. I ...
Mother Tongue— Part Two
© Segun Iwasanmi Articles Of Love (Spoken Word Pieces) — Article IV 💊💊💊 … Look at how we scroll through the screen, looking for validation from strangers on the timeline, Because the people who share our surname have never told us we are enough. A boy will go outside and join a gang just to feel like he belongs somewhere, Running away from the venom at home, only to fall into the jaws of the street. We have turned our children into actors, playing a role they never chose, Forced ...
Mother Tongue— Part One
© Segun Iwasanmi Articles Of Love (Spoken Word Pieces) — Article IV 💊💊💊 The first wall a child ever hits is not the one made of bricks, it is the one built at the dining table when the kitchen is dark. Before the world teaches a boy how to bleed, his own house gives him the first cut. You see, many adults grew up in places where the soup was sweet but the words were pure vinegar, Where the people who gave you life were the same ones dropping the life out of your spirit. We think t...
Editors Are Not Enemies
© Segun Iwasanmi ✍️✍️✍️ There is one thing I noticed growing up that used to confuse me. Whenever children draw something at home, we'll l proudly run to our parents and say, "See what I drew!" Even if the goat looked like a generator and the sun somehow entered the sitting room, we would still present it with complete confidence. We displayed a pure, unshaken belief in our own work. And honestly, I understand it now more than I used to. Human beings naturally fall in love with th...
Don't Be Humble And Hateful— Final Part
© Segun Iwasanmi “This Thing Called Life" Series— Episode Twenty Three 💊💊💊 … Shey that's the kind of life you want?. That kind of life is tiring nah. Very tiring. I think that was why that story stayed with me. That older brother could have become cold. He could have withdrawn emotionally. He could have started acting deep and unavailable. Nobody would even blame him completely. Human ego likes recognition. But instead, he chose honour. And there is something powerful about p...
The Economy Is Not The Only Thing That Is Hard
© Segun Iwasanmi Friday “Talk Am As E Be!" — 15/05/2026 💊💊💊 The economy is hard, no doubt. You buy something today, tomorrow the price has changed and everybody just sighs like we are all inside one group project nobody volunteered for yet we have to comply. Sometimes you hold money in your hand and before evening it already feels like the money has expired. But I have also realized that not every lack is inside the account balance. Some of it is inside the mind. In the way we ...
Your Life Is Material
© Segun Iwasanmi ✍️✍️✍️ There's something funny about Nigerians. We can say "I'm fine" with red eyes, cracked voice and one dangerous sigh that can trigger panic in a nearby person. We are naturally dramatic creatures, we just hide it well under "I'm managing." A friend of mine, Rita Oluwasaanufunmi, recently wrote a book titled Behind The Twenty-Year Odyssey. I had the privilege of editing it and later serving as moderator at the launch. While working on the manuscript, somethin...
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If you only talk to God when you need help, your altar will always feel like an emergency room. If only we'll realize that God is a not an ATM machine that's only visited when there's a need for supply. If you treat him like that, He'll answer you like that. A prayer altar is built by consistency, don't just visit Him at times convenient to you,dwell in His presence always. —— Azusa Reigniters Tribe 🔥
Don't Be Humble And Hateful— Part One
© Segun Iwasanmi “This Thing Called Life" Series— Episode Twenty Three 💊💊💊 Sometimes the people that clap for you publicly are fighting you privately inside their heart. I'm not talking of spiritual or physical fight oo. Human beings are complicated like that. I was thinking about it one evening while watching two women argue beside a tomato seller. The argument started from something very small. One woman mistakenly stepped on the other person’s nylon bag and before you knew ...
Why Scripts Read Differently
© Segun Iwasanmi ✍️✍️✍️ One thing nobody tells young scriptwriters is this: the first thing that can destroy your script is trying too hard to sound intelligent. I know because I did it with full confidence and got humbled on WhatsApp. I sent a script early in my career, already imagining the overwhelmed appreciation feedback in my head. The man replied few days later, "Your writing reads like prose blended with poetry, but please, what I need is action." Ah. I was like "as how ...
Rest Is Not Laziness But We Will Not Heal That Wound Today.
© Segun Iwasanmi Friday “Talk Am As E Be!" — 08/05/2026 💊💊💊 I noticed something the other day. I was just sitting, doing nothing, and it felt… somehow wrong. Like I had forgotten something important. I even reached for my phone, it's not like there was anything to check sef, but being still started to feel uncomfortable. It happens to you too, doesn't it? We have made busy look like the right way to live. If you are always doing something, moving, replying, chasing the next ...
Ask Yourself This Before You Continue
© Segun Iwasanmi ✍️✍️✍️ Two days ago while traveling home, I watched a man arguing with a bus driver like the driver personally offended his ancestors. He was confused. "Oga, are you going to Lagos or not?" The driver kept saying yes, but somehow the bus was already heading towards Okitipupa. By the time we got to Mobil filling station at Ore, it was clear the driver had been replying absentmindedly the whole time. The man's face ehn, I can't explain it. But I reflected on it beca...
Hashtags That Opens Heaven — Part Two
© Segun Iwasanmi The Algorithm Of Heaven's Media— Chapter Ten 💊💊💊 … Everything looked better, cleaner and more intentional. On the outside, nothing had changed. The content still spoke about God. It still sounded right. But later that night when Christian opened his Spirit-Interface. He didn’t know why he felt the need to check, but something in him wanted to see. He scrolled to his recent uploads. They were there but they didn’t look the same. Before, his posts had carried...
Hashtags That Opens Heaven — Part One
© Segun Iwasanmi The Algorithm Of Heaven's Media— Chapter Ten 💊💊💊 Christian’s life had settled into a rhythm that felt almost like music. Every morning, before the campus fully woke up, he would find his way to the shade of the flamboyant trees near the Staff Quarters. The ground there was always cool, even when the sun had started rising. He would sit with his Bible open on his lap. The Morning Sync had stopped feeling like a task. It had become something he looked forward to,...
Good Is Not Finished
© Segun Iwasanmi ✍️✍️✍️ I remember the first time someone told me, "This your story is good." The way I relaxed that day ehn, you'd think I had published and sold it, collected my money and was already spending it. I even closed the file like someone that had arrived. Two days later I read it again and started seeing things. Places that dragged, sentences that said plenty but meant little, moments that should have hit but just passed like breeze. That "good" had made me blind temp...
Complexity Is Not Depth
© Segun Iwasanmi ✍️✍️✍️ I once heard someone say his story was "too deep" for people to understand, and I almost believed him… until I read it. I wasn't confused in a good way, I was just lost. Names everywhere, timelines as consistent as NEPA light in this side of Nigeria 🫥, and somehow nothing was actually happening. That one no be depth. That's just noise wearing a book cover Many writers think if a story is not complicated, it's not powerful. So they keep adding layers o...
Father Figures And Figure It Out — Final Part
© Segun Iwasanmi Articles of love (Spoken Word Pieces) — Article III 💊💊💊 ... I am The Man With The Story, and I've watched so many's story changed when they stopped looking for a "dad" in the world And started looking for the Father in the Word. No more excuses. No more "that’s just how we are." The blood of Jesus is thicker than the trauma of your lineage. Rise up. Take your place. Not as a man who "figured it out," But as a man who was found by the One who never lost him. Oloru...
This Small Trick Keeps Tension Alive
© Segun Iwasanmi ✍️✍️✍️ There's a way some people tell stories that will just tire you, not because the story is bad, but because they start from when they woke up, what they ate, how they wore slippers, before they finally reach the actual point. I remember one guy like that. You'd ask him, "What happened?" and he'd begin from two days ago. Meanwhile, the real gist is what happened few minutes ago. . By the time he gets there, you've already checked your phone twice and started p...
There's A Version Of You We're Missing
© Segun Iwasanmi Friday “Talk Am As E Be!" — 24/04/2026 💊💊💊 Sometimes I catch myself in small moments. The way I start to say something and then I stop halfway. Or the way I laugh, but not fully, like I’m checking if it’s too much. It’s small, but it’s there. And I know I didn’t used to do that. There is a version of you that has gone quiet like that. Is it because it did anything wrong? No, it's not because it needed to change. Just because, somewhere along the line, ...
Father Figures And Figure It Out — Part One
© Segun Iwasanmi Articles of Love (Spoken Word Pieces) — Article III 💊💊💊 They say a boy’s first hero is his father, but what happens when the hero is just a ghost in the hallway? Or a memory that only visits when the rent is due? Many grew up in houses where the walls were thick but the presence was thin, Looking at a Father Figure and trying to Figure It Out on your own. You see, a lot were raised by men who thought providing was the same as being present, So they gave you Prese...
Your Book Doesn't Need Everyone
© Iwasanmi Segun ✍️✍️✍️ This Morning, I watched two people argue over the same movie like their lives depended on it. One said it was the best thing he had seen all year, the other said he almost slept off before it ended. The funny part is, both of them were right. The story reached one person and missed the other completely, there was difference in connection. That thing happens in writing more than people realize. You sit down trying to make everybody happy, so you soften your ...
The Day Mummy Cried Too — Part One
© Segun Iwasanmi "This Thing Called Life" Series — Episode 22 💊💊💊 It was evening that day, our house was one of those compounds where life is always happening at the same time. Someone was frying something by the corner, children were arguing over a ball that had already torn, a generator was making that steady background noise that everybody has gotten used to. Then I heard a voice that did not match the moment. "Mummy, you too?" I turned slightly, not fully, just enough to see...
Pacing Is Invisible Until It's Wrong
© Iwasanmi Segun ✍️✍️✍️ One night I was reading someone's manuscript and I found myself checking the time, it wasn't because I was tired, but because the story refused to move. (No offense meant, I just want you all to learn) It was like sitting in a bus that had fuel, engine, everything… but the driver just kept pressing brake for no reason. Funny thing is, the writing itself was not bad. It had clean sentences, good grammar, even small small wisdom inside. But every scene staye...
The Algorithm Rewards Consistency — Final Part
© Segun Iwasanmi The Algorithm Of Heaven's Media— Chapter Nine 💊💊💊 It was an heart emoji from Funke. Christian held the phone in his hand and sat still for a while. The room was quiet, the early morning air cool against his skin. Somewhere outside, a rooster crowed like it had been waiting all night for this exact moment. He didn’t smile immediately. He felt he hadn’t done anything dramatic. No long fasting. No loud preaching in the middle of campus. No carefully planned “co...
Nobody is performing. Everybody is resting.
© Segun Iwasanmi Friday “Talk Am As E Be!" — 17/04/2026 💊💊💊 That’s the lie. Everybody is performing. Nobody is really resting. You’ll see it now. Someone is smiling, posting, looking like life is soft… but inside, they are tired, so tired that sleep cannot solve it. Living on vibes, quick food, and prayers they have not even finished praying. Then two people like that sit down to talk. Each person is carrying something heavy, but instead of dropping it, they hold it tighte...
The Algorithm Rewards Consistency — Part Seven
© Segun Iwasanmi The Algorithm Of Heaven's Media— Chapter Nine 💊💊💊 But the feeling didn’t stay long. He dropped the phone beside him and lay down. Inside him, the Evening Sync settled gently, like an engine that had finally found its rhythm. This time, when sleep came, it didn’t struggle to enter. By the time Christian woke up for his 5:00 AM prayer, his phone was already vibrating on the small table beside his bed. Just enough to pull him out of sleep. He reached for it, eyes...
Emotion Is The Real Engine
© Segun Iwasanmi ✍️✍️✍️ There was a story someone sent me one evening, voice note first, then the write-up. As he was reading it, his voice was shaking at some parts. You could hear it. Real feeling. Real pain. But when I opened the actual text, everything disappeared. The same story that made him pause while talking somehow became flat on paper. Like two different people were telling it. That thing happens more than people admit. You know the story is deep, you even feel it insi...
The Algorithm Rewards Consistency — Part Six
© Segun Iwasanmi The Algorithm Of Heaven's Media— Chapter Nine 💊💊💊 He had been measuring growth by feeling, not by direction. It was like planting something in the ground and digging it up every two days just to check if it had grown. He leaned his head back against the wall and closed his eyes briefly. All those small “yeses.” All those quiet moments nobody saw. They had been adding up. Then he reached for his physical phone, the one with the cracked screen guard at the edge. ...
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We pray so as to receive grace to pray more. Prayer should be a progression, the time spent on the altar should be increasing, not decreasing. It's saddening to see youths bragging today, “Those days on campus when I used to pray for.. hours" These is supposed to be a lamentation, is it supposed to increase or decrease? It shows a lack on your part, the Holy Ghost has been calling you into deeper intimacy, but disobedience is holding you back. And what's holding you back from going deeper, ...
Read Your Script Out Loud
© Segun Iwasanmi ✍️✍️✍️ One evening, I heard someone rehearsing a script in the next room, and I almost choked myself as I tried to prevent myself from laughing, not because it was funny, but because nobody in real life talks like that. “Hello, my dear friend, how was your day today?” Even the person reading it paused and said, “Wait… who talks like this?” This explains why some scenes die before they even reach a camera. It’s not the idea. It’s the sound of it. A ...
The Algorithm Rewards Consistency — Part Four
© Segun Iwasanmi The Algorithm Of Heaven's Media— Chapter Nine 💊💊💊 That night, sleep refused to come. Christian lay on his bed staring at the ceiling, one arm folded under his head, the other resting on his chest. The room was quiet except for the occasional sound of someone turning on the corridor outside, or a distant laugh that drifted in and faded away. Funke’s words stayed with him. You have a voice… people are reading… your content has engagement. He turned to his si...
The Thing About Growing Up Nobody Warned You About
© Segun Iwasanmi Friday “Talk Am As E Be!" — 10/04/2026 💊💊💊 The thing about growing up is that nobody really sits you down to explain how it will feel. The people ahead of you just smile in that knowing way and call it growing up, as if that one phrase is enough to carry all the weight. Because some days, it does not feel like progress. It feels like losing things you did not even know you were holding so tightly. You lose the ease you once had, the way you could sleep anywhere w...
