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Comedy-Writing Catch 22. Page 2
Quote: chipolata @ September 14 2010, 12:59 PM BSTIt's not rocket science - get off your arse and get out in the real world a bit more!
I do try! But I'm always tied up working or babysitting because the missus works a lot of evenings.
I think what I need to do is just be more rigid with my working hours, knock off at 12 to go out for lunch, keep some weekends free etc. Ta for everyone's suggestions.
Just make stuff up.I thought the best thing about being a writer (for those lucky enough to earn a living from it) was not having to mix with other people...bliss.
If you're writing for TV about characters that'll be featured in TV shows, then surely all you need is an excelent knowledge of said shows?
TV trumps real life.
I live in the real world as an international spy, gynacologist and dragon tamer.
But my work is always the naieve writings of a spoddy shut in.
Quote: sootyj @ September 14 2010, 1:23 PM BSTIf you're writing for TV about characters that'll be featured in TV shows, then surely all you need is an excelent knowledge of said shows?
TV trumps real life.
I live in the real world as an international spy, gynacologist and dragon tamer.
But my work is always the naieve writings of a spoddy shut in.
Hope I didn't give the impression I'm flat-out writing for TV shows, I'm bloody not, most of my time is spent thinking up greetings card ideas still. But when I am doing my little telly projects I wish I was out and about more that's all. I suppose when you get to the lofty stage where your own sitcom's getting made, there'll be meetings and lots of train journeys etc so I imagine that helps.
Quote: chipolata @ September 14 2010, 12:59 PM BSTIt's not rocket science - get off your arse and get out in the real world a bit more!
Or try Rocket Science.
Ah, the science of salad. Yes, that'll help...
Dan
I can identify with this. I've also found that the more I write the more strict my "internal filter" gets. So once I've dismissed ideas I've decided aren't worth pursuing (ones I would probably have developed a few years ago) and ones which are too similar to something I've written before or I've seen elsewhere then there's often not a lot left.
On the plus side I think taking more time to think about material and not writing something until you have a solid idea can be good in terms of consistency of quality.
Bo.
Wasn't Catch 22 a piece of comedy writing anyway?
This all depends if you want to be a hobby writer or a professional writer. The difference? A hobby is something you do in your spare time or occasionally. A professional writer is someone who does it as their main focus. They have arranged their life to feed their writing. They might still have a full time job to pay for this but its a job that won't counter-act against their writing.
I always get a new idea just in time to stop me finishing whatever it was I was working on before I had the new idea.
Quote: penfold @ September 21 2010, 10:31 AM BSTI always get a new idea just in time to stop me finishing whatever it was I was working on before I had the new idea.
Oh I hate that. And because its new and exciting you want to work on it straight away, until you ruin the excitement by writing it no where as good as you imagined it to be. Actually, that could just be me. 
Quote: penfold @ September 21 2010, 10:31 AM BSTI always get a new idea just in time to stop me finishing whatever it was I was working on before I had the new idea.
Yep. Me too.