Category: About Writing
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How To Tell A Joke
Everything I ever learned about comedy, I learned from this sketch.
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Terry Pratchett Talks About His Genesis
Two quick clips from Mark Lawson Talks To: Terry Pratchett.
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How To Write Comedy With Your Friend
Some of the best (and some of the hardest) times that I’ve had writing comedy have been spent doing so with different friends. There are so many different ways to work in a partnership of course, but here are three examples that ring true to my own different experiences. The most fun is when you…
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They Came While We Were Sleeping
Sometimes, when developing an idea, I like to improvise into a microphone. Doing so often shakes loose some thoughts, and can even bring up new ideas that would never have occurred to me. I just turn on the recorder and start speaking. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sundayssupplement/aliensmixed.mp3 (Download) That’s what I did yesterday. Give it a go, it’s a…
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How To Write A Brilliant Scene
Have a look at this sketch from The Micallef P(r)ogram(me). Sometimes it’s useful to see what bad writing would look like, and take it to the extreme just to highlight everything that’s wrong with it. If you haven’t learnt something from what you just watched, then it was a waste of your time watching it,…
