How Long Have You Been Writing?

As a relative newbie around here I'd be interested to see how long people had been writing and what their biggest success has been.

I'll start - it's not very impressive.

Have had a couple of sitcom ideas for a number of years. Finally started putting pen to paper last month. Found this site and quickly started doing sketches and recently had a bash at 118 118 jokes.

Biggest success - got a sketch considered for the last Treason show. It didn't get in.

But only been going a month!

Onwards and upwards.

I've been writing since 3am this morning, my eyes are bleeding.

I started writing comedy about 2 years ago. With sketches and sitcom pilots.
Co-wrote a sketch show with the slaggs and evans brothers.

Biggest success - getting a sketch in the best of year at NewsRevue.

I really should start sending more stuff off.

Currently writing jokes for 118118 and writing a sitcom pilot, that I'm determined to finsh (something I haven't managed to do yet)

About a year and a quarter, doing ok but not breaking into broadcast media.

Bigfella your an ace writer; write more, go for News Revue and Treason show, target them at the beginning of their new material cycle.

You definitely should be getting stuff taken up by them.

n.b. greatest bit of comedy writing for me? I wrote the last budget boom boom!

About four years. Biggest success I suppose is having a show offered to channels. But so far no bites.

Errr, writing about 4 years I think - sitcoms only at first.

Wrote a kids show pilot that drummed up some interest with producers, but it died down. Had my second sitcom pitched to the BBC. Third is going to networks too.

Written sketches for a Comedy Lab last year, hopefully doing some bits for the up-coming series.

Quote: sootyj @ January 9 2009, 9:28 AM GMT

Bigfella your an ace writer; write more, go for News Revue and Treason show, target them at the beginning of their new material cycle.

You definitely should be getting stuff taken up by them.

n.b. greatest bit of comedy writing for me? I wrote the last budget boom boom!

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Thanks for the compliment! That makes me

Good budget joke!!!

So the other question I have to ask everyone is - As we have all posted here at 9.30 in the morning. Do any of us have proper jobs to go to!!!!

Quote: bigfella @ January 9 2009, 9:35 AM GMT

So the other question I have to ask everyone is - As we have all posted here at 9.30 in the morning. Do any of us have proper jobs to go to!!!!

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Oh, I'm at work! But it's much better to aimlessly surf the web then do anything I'm actually paid for.

I only go into the office once a week.

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I only go into the office once a week.

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I hate you.

Quote: bigfella @ January 9 2009, 9:35 AM GMT

Thanks for the compliment! That makes me

Good budget joke!!!

So the other question I have to ask everyone is - As we have all posted here at 9.30 in the morning. Do any of us have proper jobs to go to!!!!

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If anything you need to dumb your stuff down a tad, maybe make it a little shorter.

Week 1 of News Revue is the easiest time to get stuff in.

Treason's a good show, but it's a harder pitch they have more fixed ideas about their stuff.

If you're going for either and you have the time, critique is full of sketches from various writers who got into both.

Infact it's a sort of AA for burned out topical sketch writers.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ January 9 2009, 9:47 AM GMT

I hate you.

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I knew that already.

Half the rest of the week I tramp around the Jasmine Allen estate.

I've been writing sitcom scripts and taking it all seriously for about 2 years, but I have done other comedy writing, short stories, dabling with novels and the like for over 15 years now, pretty much just on a hobby basis. I was sending stuff to Viz and Smut magazines around 1995 to try my luck but no uptake there sadly.

By biggest success was convincing 'her indoors' that I was actually serious about sitcom writing and she bought me a brand new MacBook to write on. I've managed to get my first script read by a few prod co's but it didn't get any further.

Def.

Had my first TV credit on Spitting Image in 1990, closely followed by ones on Hale & Pace, and Davro. Had been trying my luck for about a year before breaking through. Biggest success was a sit-com on Radio Cymru, and a pilot broadcast on Radio Wales.

Keith wins the thread.

I wrote my first short film in 1995 (produced), a few feature film scripts between 1999 and 2003 (unproduced) and my first TV sitcom last year (out in the world).

Feature films are hardest.

I've been writing on and off for the last 7 years, novel and magazine writing that is but I've been scriptwriting for the last 8 months.

14 years. Had a few TV credits - Comedy Shuffle, Scallywagga, Smith And Jones, Hale and Pace...biggest success, filming in London with Hat Trick on a sketch show taster a few months ago.