Quote: sootyj @ November 23 2008, 11:22 PM GMTI figure goto prison for a horrific murder for 20 years,
You'll most likely get more encouraging correspondence and offers of help than being a comedy writer.
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Quote: sootyj @ November 23 2008, 11:22 PM GMTI figure goto prison for a horrific murder for 20 years,
Bob'your uncle everything you do is a positive improvement.
And they do creative writing classes in prison. And you have the material for a book. If I had done that instead of going to Uni I would be out by now and a published author. If only I had my time again!
Quote: Seefacts @ November 23 2008, 11:19 PM GMTI do like it when you remind me we're in fact 11 years apart.
Still, at least you've been saving lives. Yeah, great . . .
I look on you as the younger brother I never was never separated from due to over-zealous social services. (I have 2 younger brothers, Seefacts, so I am used to being envied and resented by younger males.)
Quote: Griff @ November 23 2008, 11:27 PM GMTPlus, if you go to prison you get
That would be a great evening of standup.
What do you get if you cross Big Lenny and his boy friend.
Murdered!
What do you get if you cross cocaine and persil.
20 years!
Quote: Tim Walker @ November 23 2008, 11:18 PM GMTI've been studing/practising medicine for nearly 18 years! I've still got another 30 f**king years as a doctor at this rate! (Unless SN is enexpectedly made head of the GMC).
Quote: Timbo @ November 23 2008, 11:28 PM GMTAnd they do creative writing classes in prison. And you have the material for a book.
From chapter one:
"... and then they kicked all my teeth out, because apparently that made the blow jobs better."
Quote: Tim Walker @ November 23 2008, 11:18 PM GMTHere, here to your parents, Seefacts! I abandoned my dreams, for a life of security, disparaged for wanting to be "creative" by my parents. And look how I turned out! (Your Mum and mine should talk.)
Seriously, my advice as a sage 35 year old, is to try and do what you want to do when you're young. I regret I having not been seriously writing until recently. Knowing that you're not really doing what you want to do in life may well give some job/financial security in the short-term, but emotionally it really does gnaw away at you over the years.
I've been studying/practicing medicine for nearly 18 years! I've still got another 30 f**king years as a doctor at this rate! (Unless SN is enexpectedly made head of the GMC).
Do you think though you would have been as good a writer at a younger age, or without the life experience you've had?
My parents are used to me pissing about at odd things; libraries, fashion, comedy. I think they're just pleased I didn't end up as Amy Winehouse or a stripper.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 24 2008, 9:47 AM GMTDo you think though you would have been as good a writer at a younger age, or without the life experience you've had?
A good point. I would not encourage anyone to leave education with the aspiration of immediately making a living from writing. Become a journalist, a doctor, a soldier, a social worker, a zoologist, a sewage worker, anything that is going to give you the raw material to write about.
Quote: Mike Greybloke @ November 24 2008, 9:26 AM GMTFrom chapter one:
"... and then they kicked all my teeth out, because apparently that made the blow jobs better."
Art requires acrifices.
I didn't tell anyone until Newsrevue did more than one of my sketches and then I bored everyone silly how successful I'd been then realised I wasn't but hey that never stopped me one day I'll try punctuation
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 24 2008, 9:47 AM GMTDo you think though you would have been as good a writer at a younger age, or without the life experience you've had?
Agree 100%. I turned 35 last week and I reckon this is the perfect time to start....still young enough to be young but with 20 years of adult experience. I'm working on the basis that Gervias wrote the Golden Years at about 35/36 so I'm on track to stardom!
Never say "i wish i had" as you never know. You take a left in your car and have a bump...that's not bad news as taking a right may have result in wiping out an entire row of pedestrians!
And where begins the quest?
An ernest year honing one's art at News Revue, or a full on assault on Prodcos with a killer sitcom pilot script?
Good luck anywho.
Quote: Timbo @ November 24 2008, 10:40 AM GMTBecome... a sewage worker - anything that is going to give you the raw material to write about.
Have you been reading Lee Henman's sketches again?
Quote: David Bussell @ November 24 2008, 12:25 PM GMTHave you been reading Lee Henman's sketches again?
There's nothing sewery about my sketches Mr Bussell. It's refined, high-brow stuff that IRONICALLY includes kniob gags and poo. Don't you know anything? 
I've always termed my high brow poo jokes as 'high brown.'
Oh dear.....