Cheers.
Keep at it.
Newsjack - Series 5 Page 29
Unlikely
Going for a change of tact this week. Sending less material in and trying to improve quality.
I'm going for a change of approach too. Having had nothing on in the first two weeks, this week I'm going to try sending something.
In danger of sounding like a stuck record, but -
Don't write and send less! Write more, and throw away more - then send the same amount!
(I reckon anyways)
Gotta agree with the 'right more bin more' line on this one.
The more you physically write the more you think.
The more you think the better your ideas.
Etc.
I know it sounds fatuous but it really is true. Writing is re-writing.
The greater your output the more familiar you become with what works/sounds good and what doesn't.
As the novelist Kingsley Amis said, the secret to writing is all about applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Easy to say of course, much harder to do when you're knackered, had a shit day, getting mither off your partner/kids... whoever.
sent three today
Just sent off my three sketches.
Newsjack away!
Quote: theboot @ September 25 2011, 9:11 PM BSTGotta agree with the 'right more bin more' line on this one.
The more you physically write the more you think.
The more you think the better your ideas.
Etc.
I know it sounds fatuous but it really is true. Writing is re-writing.
The greater your output the more familiar you become with what works/sounds good and what doesn't.
As the novelist Kingsley Amis said, the secret to writing is all about applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Easy to say of course, much harder to do when you're knackered, had a shit day, getting mither off your partner/kids... whoever.
I think it's more of a compromise.
Yes write loads.
But when you've got it down to the ones you want, then stop writing and start crafting. You may go from 30 to 3, but make those 3 tigers.
They probably use what 30 quickies max out of maybe 400 people submitting about 10 each. Meaning the ratio is something like 1:400.
And a misplaced word, overlong intro extension after the punch all will doom your joke to eternal damnation.
Three sketches winging their way to Newjack as I type.
(Was debating whether everyone was going to do the CERN story, particularly from a time-travel angle. In the end took the risk, wrote it, tried to be a little different and it definitely was the most fun sketch to write.)
Btw - not sure we ever found out but what did you get on last week Frantically and Hennell?
I sent off my three sketches last night.
Went with a neutrinos one as well. More satirising the media reaction to such science news than about the subject itself, so hopefully a bit different.
If this proves ftl possible, is the guy who writes about worm holes for bad scifi shows sticking his head in an oven as we speak?
Sadly I went for those cheeky neutrinos as well, so looks like the odds of sketch success on that are similar to those for each individual one-liner...
I considered doing a sketch on neutrinos, but I remembered it's best to write about what you know, so I went with masturbation and bestiality. The third sketch was advertising, so I'm filing that under 'wankers' too 