Well my first bit of advice to anyone hoping to make money from writing is, if you're not enjoying yourself don't bother.
I shall be spending this evening working on my crappy "50 shades dating guide" followed by an executive summary for an Israeli IT company. And if I get my notes a standup routine for an Australian motivational speaker, who's terribly enthusiastic about stuff.
What are you upto?
I have this web series I'm writing with comedian Isabel Fay, so I'm re-drafting an episode.
Ooh very nice (both her and the opportunity).
I think I've written pilot episodes for 3 web series. Thing is they're all for dreamers.
So I get paid a bit and then feel guilty it's from some poor soul still living in his parents basement.
That and they never get filmed.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ December 24 2012, 4:56 PM GMTI have this web series I'm writing with comedian Isabel Fay, so I'm re-drafting an episode.
Hang on is that the office thingumy with the Bussell?
Quote: sootyj @ December 24 2012, 5:00 PM GMTHang on is that the office thingumy with the Bussell?
Oh no, that's dead as dead; this is this:
Wow and well done, I shall look out for that.
So YouTube can create real opportunities? Time to dust down some of my moribund standup clips.
I'm so envious of clever sods like you two
If someone held a gun to my head and said write something like that I literally wouldn't be able to
Wouldnt even know where to start
Write something like what?
meh anyone can write your posts are perfectly entertaining
Like an episode of a sitcom or something
I think you must need a special type of brain or something....
Ho hum!
Honestly? It's practise and reading a couple of good books or doing a course.
Writing sitcom isn't easy it just takes practise, start with sketches and build upwards.
Of course getting someone to pay you anything, now then lies the challenge.
Yeah, any idiot can write a sitcom. Making it funny and engaging is the problem for 99% of wannabe writers.
Funny, engaging and commercially viable and you can push that percentage up to 99.9%
But there's more than one kind of success. Having a reading thtough of a script that gets people laughing can be a reward.
Ok not as good as a million viewers and a fat cheque.
But not every reward is the gold cup.
While farty arsing around on elance I just applied to join Al Jazeera kids as a writer.
It's a funny old world innit.
Shit realised as I'm doing naff all on Christmas day and there's no one else likely to be online. I'm likely to end up look like a total mental case posting to my self.
Hey Sootyj you are a talentless hack.
Damn you Sootyj you troll.
L.E will be online.
Quote: sootyj @ December 24 2012, 8:29 PM GMTWhile farty arsing around on elance I just applied to join Al Jazeera kids as a writer.
It's a funny old world innit.
Shit realised as I'm doing naff all on Christmas day and there's no one else likely to be online. I'm likely to end up look like a total mental case posting to
Wonderful time to crack on with some elance jobs.
I've just finished my eleventh Kindle book; might try my hand at the old erotic fiction next.
Quote: bigfella @ December 24 2012, 8:40 PM GMTmight try my hand at the old erotic friction
Filth.