Category: About Writing
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Milton
I always find it fascinating that some of the more outlandish characters to hit our screens usually have a seed in real life (c.f The League Of Gentlemen). That’s the case with Milton from Office Space. And also Boomhauer from King Of The Hill.
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Writing Lessons To Be Learned From The Wrong Guy
Last night I watched the Dave Foley film The Wrong Guy, which is well worth your time. I want to talk in particular about this scene though. This made me piss giggles, and it’s a great lesson for writers, and writers of comedy. First, it’s always more interesting when minor characters provide an obstacle, and…
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I Am A Fish 400 Times
I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but there’s a lot of proto Red Dwarf in Grant & Naylor’s Radio 4 sketch shows Cliche and Son Of Cliche. If you want to hear the genesis and development of Hol Rock, have a listen if you can. It’s always fascinating. Today though, let’s look at a…
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Attacks Of Opinion
Here are a few snippets from an interview with Terry Jones, made for The English Programme, in which he talks about writing a weekly newspaper column. It’s out of print now, but the collection of some of those columns, Attacks Of Opinion was published in 1988.
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What Your Procrastination Is Telling You
Like all of these things, I can only speak from personal experience, and the fact that I’m writing a blog about procrastination tells you I should actually be writing a script. But I’m not. I’m procrastinating. A long time ago – like 30 years or something – I used to misuse that word. I used…
