An Oscar-winning writer showed up at the Emmy Awards performance nominees’ reception Friday with a broken nose, which he said happened when he was writing, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Ministry of Gossip blog.

"I wish I could say I was in a bar fight, but I broke my nose writing," said Aaron Sorkin, who won an Oscar this year for “The Social Network.”

He added that while he was working on a block of dialogue in the mirror, he accidentally head-butted himself, the story says.

Sorkin is working on an HBO drama about a cable-news network.