"Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!"
- Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Do those words make ones heart sing and at the same time make tears come to the eye for the bravery of Bulgakov, then read on and if you haven't heard of Bulgakov please read about him a wonderful man and great writer.
By the way Bulgakov was both Stalin's favourite writer but also never to be published based on Stalin's orders after reading his work, Master and Magarita being a critical humorous attack on Stalin's reign of terror.
What I'm looking for?
Form a long-term collaborative writing partnership/group
• I'm looking for a writing marriage
- I'm not looking for someone to write a script necessarily with more that by creating a group we can produce enough material to create a commercial job of it i.e get agents/producer scumbags interested (no offence but they are interested in making filthy money not the fine words)
• I'm not looking to ever perform personally
• I'm looking ideally for a professional writer or someone who writes beautifully
- Note i won't use standard word structure as i'm dyslexic it is however the case that i can on occasion produce a beautiful collection of words in a pleasing array
• Someone with contacts who knows the industry ideally
• Someone who is broad minded
• Someone interested in culture
• The humour will look to attack authorities' wrongdoing or provide alternative thinking - you can't be too sensitive at attacking Woke culture for example there can't be a sacred cow
• Someone who won't mind treading the line of taste
• Someone who won't mind attacking both right and left, saying woke won't trigger you again you search for truth and might even attack your own foibles and beliefs in order to test there strength
• I'm thinking firstly of a concept which I would develop with you to make a series of sketches for Netflix/BBC Radio 'whatever'
- I'm also happy to support your ideas too and its a case we can write what we want but be as it were simpatico to each others word play efforts
Hey the above was a list of hopeful mights but the following are Musts:
• Hardworking
• Dedicated
• Reliable
• No bull
• Can agree to put in X hours of writing a week and stick at it
About Me:
• I'm a white male
• I'm 50
• I'm Married
• I'm not that bright having gone to polytechnic I didn't get great grades so I'm no Oxford graduate
• Classified as dyslexic as a child and graded for the job of a Binman - Not even joking here
• Reasons to be bitter: Red hair as a child, now balding, a surname of Pratt, having the piss taken out of me having come originally from a delightful village all too near too Liverpool (yes every scouser was and still is a comedian)
• So basically I'm bitter .. the summary here is I am bitter, bitter, bitter
• Also it should be noted I'm not sure if 'Bitter' refers to lemon bitter or Suarez bitter so I need a non-dyslexic/sympathetic soul to work with
You probably have a picture of me already - how about changing it perhaps to the worse?
• Well I'm a culture vulture (pretentious), so I love so much than the average pretentiously
• Well I read literature some of the greats I'm sure you know 'Romance of Three Kingdoms', 'Master & Margaretta' (listed earlier), also I enjoy Opera and ballet, you know normal stuff for Alpha males
• I cry watching ballet, I also cry watching boxing and UFC, the mental strength the physical beauty overcoming ones limitations the fight to achieve beauty
• Velasquez - truth within art, I cry looking at paintings too
• Der Mond has anyone seen this Opera other than me, I love it in black and white with heavy LSD hedgehog people/cast and German wordplay from the gods themselves - Carl Orff the writter of incredible word play was a terrible human by all accounts by the way, for me this isn't an issue
• I'm a Data Architect successful and love my job - writing is more a side hustle or passion project
• Poetry - The Iliad just wow. Just wow. Amazing stuff or indeed Chinese Revolutionary Poetry anything at all lets eat it all up
- Taking many attempts to pass a C in english being in classes with those unable to read or write and a love for violence made gave me a lifelong love of literature as I was never inflicted by english literature lessons
I've become successful-ish through sticking at stuff and as described above reading the classics digesting the words and works of giants
What Kind of Comedy do I think is funny?
Lots...but here's a list of a few
• Les Dawson
• Bulgakov
- Voltaire
• Inbetweeners - White Gold - Great writers
• IT Crowd - Father Ted - Great Writers
- PG Wodehouse
To name but a few.
What will I provide?
• A lot of ideas
• I will produce sketches or chapters at an alarming quantity
• A lot of ideas I wrote an initial section of a potential self-help/comedy book, I've got ideas
- I will repeat myself - I think concepts are my strength at work i can resolve decade running issues by thinking out options and solutions through abstracting into a conceptual level (its surprisingly useful)
• Ability to cry and get frustrated as we re-work garbage rough drafts into top quality material
• A nutter that once started just keeps on going and is strong force and highly drive - but i'm normal Liverpool supporting team player who is also a delight to be around
• Someone who won't listen initially and may be initially intransigent... initially.... then i will listen and change position quite quickly after open to new ideas and direction if it is superior to existing thought
Why do I want to do this?
• Well I'm thinking that we could reveal the truth - re. Tolstoy or Velasquez.
- Lets use humour to inform and attack the greed of corporations
- Lets use humour to inform and attack the greed of corporations
• I thought about the dangerous attack on freedom of thought within those with good intentions or intentions to seize power
• I thought about introducing people to culture the great writers the wisdom that even idiots like me can find if we just keep shovelling
But perhaps we can make people laugh and achieve in some way these objectives
Let us circle back to a wonderful thought of what we could look to achieve in writing comedy.
"Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!" - Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
