I've been lurking here and already done a few posts, then remembered I'd forgotten this section. How rude of me.
I'm trying to write TV comedy. Not had anything taken up yet but I'm cracking on with the only bit I have any influence over - scripts and outlines. I'm moving into this field from the book world, where I had three novels published and another due out later this year. I don't know if that affects anything. The books haven't made me a household name or anything so I'm just approaching this TV writing things as a beginner, albeit one with reasonably developed narrative skills.
I grew up reading and watching films and TV, but when I decided to get creative it just seemed easier to do novels. You can do the whole thing on your own, with no prior knowledge required and without having to wait for other people to turn your words into anything else. But now I want to do other stuff, and TV comedy is it. Some of it is probably because I like a challenge. Some is because I've just picked up more knowledge of how TV writing works, so it doesn't seem quite so much like alchemy now.
The only thing of mine to have reached the screen is a short film script. It wasn't funny (or meant to be) and didn't win any awards. I have endless admiration for the director for how he did it, though, and the amount of work involved just to produce a 5 minute film was mind-boggling.
Favourite comedy: Curb, Peep, Boosh, Marenghi, Seinfeld, Partridge, Office, IT, Family Guy, King of the Hill, Young Ones...
Maybe guides would be a better word. 