Quote: Marc P @ September 15 2009, 7:23 PM BSTWriters don't, they say write about what you want to explore. I know nothing about prostitutes and serial killing and serious whisky abuse for example.
What about ordinary whisky abuse?
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I drank a whole bottle of the stuff last Friday, the hangover I had was pretty serious, does that count?
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ September 15 2009, 10:29 PM BSTI drank a whole bottle of the stuff last Friday, the hangover I had was pretty serious, does that count?
It depends what you did before.
I know nothing about prostitutes and serial killing and serious whisky abuse for example.
If you ever need any pointers, I'm an expert on all three. 
Neither of the other two I don't think, although my memory of it isn't great now.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ September 15 2009, 11:00 PM BSTNeither of the other two I don't think, although my memory of it isn't great now.
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Quote: Adam Blaize @ September 15 2009, 6:10 PM BSTOur sitcom was about two writers, midway through penning a sitcom. It was original but more happened. It was kind of like a sitcom within a sitcom, if that makes sense? I can't give more away at the minute or my co-writer won't be happy.
It's quite true to our own experience; they do say write what you know anyway don't they.
I think they also say "don't write about writers or writing", but good luck. 
Mine is called "Unlimited Vengeance". It's about a man who enters competitions only to meet rejection. He ends up torturing the competition organisers (manually plucking one pube a minute for - um, five or more minutes - before deciding to pluck theirs instead), finally slaughtering the head honcho (let's call him JP) in stages while re-enacting scenes from Theatre of Blood.
It's easily staged and lasts 10 minutes.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ September 14 2009, 11:55 PM BSTMarc are you down here bullying the new writers again?
He does seem grumpy of late. Might be the pressure of negotiations to replace Chris Evans on Radio 2.
Dan
Quote: BILLYBOB BOB BOB @ September 15 2009, 10:17 PM BSTWhat about ordinary whisky abuse?
My local's house whisky is about the second most disgusting thing I have ever put in my mouth!
Quote: Badge @ September 16 2009, 12:22 AM BSTI think they also say "don't write about writers or writing", but good luck.
Mine is called "Unlimited Vengeance". It's about a man who enters competitions only to meet rejection. He ends up torturing the competition organisers (manually plucking one pube a minute for - um, five or more minutes - before deciding to pluck theirs instead), finally slaughtering the head honcho (let's call him JP) in stages while re-enacting scenes from Theatre of Blood.
It's easily staged and lasts 10 minutes.
He does seem grumpy of late. Might be the pressure of negotiations to replace Chris Evans on Radio 2.
Oi! I am never grumpy. Sometimes I am sardonic. 
Seinfeld was about a couple of writers writing a sitcom. Well some of it. I liked Seinfeld. And Extras was about a writer writing a sitcom. Well some of it. When the whistle Blows 
just like that.
It's more about the working relationship and the friendship between the two writers. But beyond that, as I say, it is about a sitcom within a sitcom.
Sounds ambitious Adam.
The difficulty in writing about writers is in trying to make the conversation and interaction between them believable. It's difficult to turn conversations and discussing ideas into something an audience will believe. As I think I said before, we wrote something that was not entirely removed from the reality of writing and discussing ideas with each other.
The main thing is, if it is about sitcom I guess, to make it as funny as possible without having in jokes about the process.
Well yeah. I mean basically talking about ideas is funny and quite often, the funniest conversations and ideas, that happen outside of the script, won't make it into a sitcom, simply because those discussions between the programmes writers will have no place in their sitcom. So the challenge is creating something realistic, without force feeding people jokes. I'm hoping that people that read our script understand it and I think that with a script like ours, it's also going to come down to the cast as well; in believing the situation that the characters find themselves in.
Quote: Badge @ September 16 2009, 12:22 AM BSTMine is called "Unlimited Vengeance". It's about a man who enters competitions only to meet rejection. He ends up torturing the competition organisers (manually plucking one pube a minute for - um, five or more minutes - before deciding to pluck theirs instead), finally slaughtering the head honcho (let's call him JP) in stages while re-enacting scenes from Theatre of Blood.
It's easily staged and lasts 10 minutes.
But does it have any 'legs'? I mean aside from the ones your main character chops off and ties around his waist for that terrible man spider joke in Act 2?
I too came up with a sitcom about comedy writers trying to write a comedy, it was called Sienfeld and now I'm an award winning squillionairre.