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I'm curious to see that for the other BSG writers:

How many things do you have on the go at the moment?
How many scripts/plays/sketches shows etc in total do you have in your back catalogue?
How many years you have been writing?

It'd be interesting to work out the average.
I was thinking about this in the shower. I don't know why I'm sharing that...

Too many.

Not enough.

Three years, just.

Quote: Simon Stratton @ August 5 2008, 9:08 PM BST

I'm curious to see that for the other BSG writers:

How many things do you have on the go at the moment?
How many scripts/plays/sketches shows etc in total do you have in your back catalogue?
How many years you have been writing?

It'd be interesting to work out the average.
I was thinking about this in the shower. I don't know why I'm sharing that...

Q1: ----Writing: 0
--------In discussion with a production company: 1
--------Waiting for a network to get back to me: 1
--------That'll be 2 then! :D

Q2:-----Scripts: 3 pilots
--------Sketches: 25-30.

Q3:-----Writing seriously: 3 and a half.

You mean, scripts/sketches/etc that have actually been used and produced?

Or just that we've written?

Ray - you can never have too many...

Seefacts - didn't expect anything less. Are they both sitcoms for Q1?

Quote: zooo @ August 5 2008, 9:16 PM BST

You mean, scripts/sketches/etc that have actually been used and produced?

Or just that we've written?

Just written.

Quote: Simon Stratton @ August 5 2008, 9:18 PM BST

Ray - you can never have too many...

Seefacts - didn't expect anything less. Are they both sitcoms for Q1?

Yeah, sitcoms.

How many things do you have on the go at the moment?

2 songs
3 backing tracks
1 sketch

How many scripts/plays/sketches shows etc in total do you have in your back catalogue?

1 sitcom episode (part: about 15 minutes)
100 sketches

How many years you have been writing?

All my life (40 odd years) but off and on and never seriously (by that I mean, I have never seriously tried to find commercial success)

That's a lot of sketches. Nice.

Quote: Simon Stratton @ August 5 2008, 9:08 PM BST

How many things do you have on the go at the moment?

Part way through 3 novels. (I haven't touched 2 of them for months)
Part way through sitcom pilot.
Part way through non fiction book.

How many scripts/plays/sketches shows etc in total do you have in your back catalogue?

scripts - 2 screenplays, one sitcom
plays - one
sketches - I dunno, only about 10
novels - 3
short stories - squillions

How many years you have been writing?

forever.

Quote: Simon Stratton @ August 5 2008, 9:23 PM BST

That's a lot of sketches. Nice.

There's a helluva lot of crummy ones! :)

I've sent some stuff off recently but not heard back yet so I'll have to say none for now.

I have 1 sitcom and probably pushing 100 sketches written.

I've been writing for about 5 months? Maybe a few months more.

I'm still a newbie :(

Quote: Simon Stratton @ August 5 2008, 9:08 PM BST

How many things do you have on the go at the moment?

Currently putting the finsihing touches to three new sitcom pilots.

Plus working on a sketch show with a couple of people. People some of you may know, who for mysteries sake shall remain secret. oooh.

Contributing to a sketch show with a major prod. company that may or may not be dead. Who I'm also in talks with about the possibility of developing another project.

A short comedy thing with another Prod. Company; which again may or may not be dead. Ah, it's a fun life.

How many scripts/plays/sketches shows etc in total do you have in your back catalogue?

Sitcoms/things that aren't sitcoms but are comedy half hours: Ten or more.

Sketches: Too many to even guess at.

How many years you have been writing?

Comedy for about the last four years, but in general since I was about ten.

Things on the go:
Working on a sketch show idea with a couple of writers.
Writing sketches continuously.
Planning a sitcom episode.

How many things:
I've probably written near to 100 sketches, but I'm only interested in about a quarter of them.
One and a half sitcom episodes.

How long:
I've been writing for about a year now.

zooo - don't forget the book you've had published ;) If it's ok to ask - what's your non-fiction book about?

Chris - That's a lot for a newbie.

This is really interesting. Cheers everyone.

How many things do you have on the go at the moment?

1 Sitcom - with a prod. company, waiting to hear on a network

How many scripts/plays/sketches shows etc in total do you have in your back catalogue?

2 Sitcoms (4 episodes of one and 1 episode of another)
3 books - 2 unfinished, 1 on the go.
3 short stories and about 20 flash fiction pieces

1 episode of a sketch show

How many years you have been writing?

A year an a half.

Quote: Simon Stratton @ August 5 2008, 9:51 PM BST

zooo - don't forget the book you've had published ;) If it's ok to ask - what's your non-fiction book about?

Ha!

It's about... stuff. Kind of history-fied. But not in any intellectual way.

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