does anyone have a golden moment? its when everything suddenly becomes clear and your head fills with brilliant comedy just waiting to be written down. mine usually happens about midnight just as i'm dozing off. i guess its to do with my brain relaxing. i always have a dilemma as to whether to get up and write it down or to hope i remember it in the morning.
last night i trusted to luck, and damned if i can remember the bastards today.
Sleep with a pen and pad by the bed - problem solved. Interpreting doodles drawn in the dark, by the cold glare of morning is another matter.
I do, when i have nothing ahead of me in the day, no work, no going out with mates, just me, the t.v, a pen and a pad of paper, then it really does flow, only then is the time where i can see or think of anything known to man and write comedy about it for example, i could be sat there watching t.v pad on my lap, and i would think something like "isn't hand soap good" then it would flow out onto the page and become some good stand-up.
I usually think of things at the most ridulous moments. Once I thought of a stand up routine on the way back from uni and had to keep saying it in my head so i wouldn't forget it. Slag's suggestion of having a pen and pad nearby is good and like Lewis says if it flows its probably great comedy.
Getting ideas in the middle of the night is one thing. You can sometimes find absolute diamonds.
But never wake up and blurrily write down the ideas you have in your dreams. At that moment you think they're the most beautiful idea anyone's ever had, but they are always absolute f**king dog poo.
Quote: zooo @ July 3, 2007, 10:43 PMAt that moment you think they're the most beautiful idea anyone's ever had, but they are always absolute f**king dog poo.
Sounds like my sex life
Stop shagging dogs then.
I find its good when I take the dogs out for a walk. No chance to write anything so you have to go over and over it in your mind to try and remember it.
Well I should say my real golden moments were having my boys but that was more red.
Blood, goo, gore & pain. Lots & lots of pain.
I am awaiting a golden moment with writing. Had 2 poems published when I was 12.
Won a competition with a story when I was 16. Got £100 out of it. Have no idea where my story went. Also won a drunk comedy open mic night in a pub once. I was almost as pissed as the audience. Dont even know what I said. Got a bottle of cheap plonk and a meal for two out of it.
God I hope there is more to come.
Quote: charley rance @ July 4, 2007, 12:02 AMGod I hope there is more to come.
I guarantee there is!!!!!! (Ihope)
I thought you were going to be a wudey then. I cant believe you let that oppo fly past you. Re look at that quote of mine & post again. (tut tut) Mr C is getting old. 
Quote: charley rance @ July 4, 2007, 12:18 AMI thought you were going to be a wudey then. I cant believe you let that oppo fly past you. Re look at that quote of mine & post again. (tut tut) Mr C is getting old.
We're old getting old dear. It's the material that's new.
Quote: johnny roulette @ July 3, 2007, 10:01 PMdoes anyone have a golden moment? its when everything suddenly becomes clear and your head fills with brilliant comedy just waiting to be written down. mine usually happens about midnight just as i'm dozing off. i guess its to do with my brain relaxing. i always have a dilemma as to whether to get up and write it down or to hope i remember it in the morning.
last night i trusted to luck, and damned if i can remember the bastards today.
I carried a notepad for years, well, several. I started carrying a dictaphone in the nineties, but with the weight of a mobile phone it made my jacket look a bit lop sided. I now carry a digital recorder and no phone.
I also have a box at home with about two thousand ideas in. Some of which include Drew Barrymore and some rope, but we won't go there.
Quote: Ed Parnell @ July 4, 2007, 12:23 AMI started carrying a dictaphone in the nineties,
Wouldn't your finger be adequate?
Quote: charley rance @ July 4, 2007, 12:18 AMI thought you were going to be a wudey then. I cant believe you let that oppo fly past you. Re look at that quote of mine & post again. (tut tut) Mr C is getting old.
Do you really think I'd stoop so low to get a cheap laugh?
Quote: David Chapman @ July 4, 2007, 12:28 AMWouldn't your finger be adequate?
More fun when you are in teh Police station and asked to make one call.
Quote: charley rance @ July 4, 2007, 12:02 AMWell I should say my real golden moments were having my boys but that was more red.
Blood, goo, gore & pain. Lots & lots of pain.I am awaiting a golden moment with writing. Had 2 poems published when I was 12.
Won a competition with a story when I was 16. Got £100 out of it. Have no idea where my story went. Also won a drunk comedy open mic night in a pub once. I was almost as pissed as the audience. Dont even know what I said. Got a bottle of cheap plonk and a meal for two out of it.God I hope there is more to come.
There's material in everything. Like I was on the Motorway, and there was one of those signs "Don't drink and drive" and I thought ...little late there, guys. Someone actually has to be on the motorway to see that. And if they are drunk, they're going to see it twice and complain about repeats.
Quote: David Chapman @ July 4, 2007, 12:28 AMDo you really think I'd stoop so low to get a cheap laugh?
David, David, David.
I bet every time you drop the soap in your shower you stoop as low as to get a cheap laugh.
I really should read the post properly. What was i rambling on about. It had nout to do with the flippin origional post.
Sorry
Dunno now. I never get any bright ideas.
I am gonna just crawl away in shame now.