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Quote: Lee Henman @ May 22 2009, 1:52 AM BST

It did strike a resonant chord though...I mean obviously writing some wanky sketches or a few scripts doesn't even make the tiniest dent in Sir Fienne's achievements, but still the message is there. Keep strong and keep on going. "Plod forever".

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There's nothing wrong with aspiring to (or actually succeeding in) entertaining people. A worthy pursuit in my eyes. The main thing is to 'plod on' in a direction that inspires you in some way.

I spent a pleasant few hours with his cousin yesterday. Me and a few hundred others that is. Jospeh Fiennes is playing Cyrano de Bergerac at Chichester Festival Theatre at the moment.

Maybe not as life threatening as climbing a mountain, but quite an achievement in itself. It's an epic production/ performance by him and well worth seeing. Although if the script got posted on critique it would get blasted for being a bit wordy.

Quote: Timbo @ May 23 2009, 9:51 AM BST

I decided to bag my first Monroe.

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... What?

Quote: SlagA @ May 23 2009, 10:19 PM BST

I see you've read my autobiography then, Morrace?

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No. But a lot of it was in 'Dear Deirdre'

Mountain climbing: why is it that when someone devotes all their energy to this obsessive and dangerous goal, for no better reason than "because it's there" , society applauds them, yet I get labelled as being mad for exactly the same level of devotion, but in collecting all my own urine in jars?

Quote: Griff @ May 23 2009, 4:24 PM BST

But I've met plenty of writers at writers groups and classes and so on who push on for years and years never improving, never getting anywhere, and never going to get anywhere, and it seems such a waste of their lives when they could be spending that precious time doing so many other things.

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This presupposes that actually getting somewhere with your writing is worthwhile. At the end of the day aren't sitcoms and sketches ultimately flotsam and jetsom. Not worth a damn in the great scheme of things.

And when it comes to inspirational quotes I like to read from the Quran:

"Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?"

Quote: Griff @ May 26 2009, 11:22 AM BST

My point is that if you know that you're writing for fun, and choosing to spend your time doing that, good for you. It's just the people I meet sometimes who clearly cannot write for toffee but are convinced, despite years of failure and rejection without a scrap of validation, that fame and fortune are just around the corner. The ones who just write the same stuff over and over without trying to figure out what isn't working. Who will look back in years to come and wonder where their life went.

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But I'd argue that they might as well do something. Who's to say wasting their life writing bad novels/screenplays that don't sell is any better than wasting their life volunteering in a soup kitchen or...oh, hang on.

Quote: Griff @ May 26 2009, 11:32 AM BST

You only get one life. Better to spend your precious spare time with friends and loved ones surely than flogging a dead script.

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You haven't met my friends and loved ones.

Quote: Griff @ May 23 2009, 4:24 PM BST

I wonder how many people are out there trying to write novels when really their talent lies in writing cheap gags. Where is Marc P today anyway?

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I've been out taking photographs.

Quote: Griff @ May 26 2009, 11:32 AM BST

You only get one life. There must surely come a time when it's better to spend your precious spare time with friends and loved ones than continuing to flog a dead script.

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I didn't have time to respond properly to this yesterday, but what I was getting at is that perhaps even the no-talent hacks who will never EVER make it are happy? Plodding on in their own self-deluded worlds? And whose to say this is any worse a way to spend your life than any other?

Quote: chipolata @ May 27 2009, 10:19 AM BST

And whose to say this is any worse a way to spend your life than any other?

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Sadly, so often the 'successful' people have tormented private lives, don't they.

I've come to wonder whether outwardly-successful people are less lucky than others. So often a celebrity can be loved by millions, but driven by insecurity and character flaws. So the public get the benefit of having an object to love, whilst that object suffers.

Quote: NoggetFred @ May 27 2009, 11:23 AM BST

Sadly, so often the 'successful' people have tormented private lives, don't they.

I've come to wonder whether outwardly-successful people are less lucky than others. So often a celebrity can be loved by millions, but driven by insecurity and character flaws. So the public get the benefit of having an object to love, whilst that object suffers.

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Must admit, I like it when they suffer. Seems a fair trade off to me.

"Mediocrity borrows, genius steals" (Or is that the other way round?)

Always stood me in good stead, as has...

"Washing machines live longer with Calgon" - I've lived my life by that philosophy.

I think you'd get a lot more attention Tim if you last name was Calgon. I mean, "you can't go wrong with Tim Calgon." Plus, it rhymes.