Category: About Writing
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About Writing: Jerry Seinfeld On How To Write A Joke
Some stand ups, and some writers, won’t agree with a word Jerry says in this, but this is a fascinating insight into how he crafts a joke from idea to final polish. This one took him two years.
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About Writing: Me Against The World Sitcom
Yesterday, we talked about using the enemy within model to infuse your sitcom with conflict and comedy. Now let’s have a look at the Me Versus The World model. Perhaps the greatest example of this is Fawlty Towers, where the whole world is structured to provide Basil with a headache. His wife, his waiter, his…
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About Writing: The Enemy Within Sitcom
One day I’m going to write a blog about how M*A*S*H and Hi-De-Hi! are fundamentally the same sitcom, but for now let’s talk about the idea of the enemy within. Conflict is the essence of drama, as you know, which also makes it the essence of a sitcom. Sitcoms need to have strong dramatic structure…
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About Writing: How To Make Your Sitcom Script Funnier
I struggle with this one a lot, and I can’t be the only one. My early drafts never seem to be funny enough, no matter how hard I’ve worked at getting the jokes in. Oftentimes it’s just a case of adding more and more funny to each draft, but sometimes that isn’t enough. Sometimes the…
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About Writing: 7 Ways To Improve Your Story
You’ve just finished your first draft, and you’ve read it back, and you feel it’s a bit flat. So, what can you do to improve it? What can be done in the re-write to make it pop? Here are seven way to improve your story (or What Back To The Future Can Teach Us About…
