She's no oil painting Sootyj.
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No-one knows what she is smiling at either?
I thought there is a theory that it isn't even the original one anymore.
I think the current theory is that Dan Brown painted it.
On the back of a cornflake packet?
Anyway we are hijacking Teddy's thread here.
Fair point about the artist thing, I seen my arse on that.
In relation to the stuff I'm doing, I don't see them as animation I am just practicing trying to write sketches, which is relatively new to me as a writer.
I really prefer sitcom writing and have wrote about ten this year all to no avail,
So as I have no commercial hopes I just follow my desire to put up stuff, in the vain hope that someone might find it funny, it really is that simple.
If someone put dough on the table my stuff would be that buffed you would need shades to look at it, but this is just idle posting to maintain an interest.
Thanks for the feedback though and a good shot on the artist front, I set a trap and got caught in it myself! One nil to you old chap!
I really think Teddy you should concentrate on one script and hone and buff as much as you can. It's a long shot at the best of times for someone to pick up a script. It's seems bizarre but people genuinely are looking for reasons to reject scripts rather than take them on. Get it as best as possible and don't give them any reasons to put it on the reject pile - as best you can anyway. Trust me no one out there is looking for the rough to make smooth. Not anymore.
Marc I know whet you're saying and I appreciate your efforts to get me on board with the notion of polishing my presentation if I am to even have the briefest chance.
But I can assure you I have sent out sitcoms that represent me at my best, I even had a friend who writes funding bids for a living go over it three times.
The truth is there are thousands of great scripts flying around and very very few looking for them.
I reached that conclusion a few months ago and decided to write a comedy book, the markets a fraction less harsh in that I can send my first chapter out to agents and see if they 'Get It' the first chapter is near ready and will be polished by my buddy.
I know I don't have a snowballs in hell but I can promise you Marc I am on the ball now with stuff I send out, thanks to people like you wising me up (Whilst annoying me because of my ignorance)
I might even have a go at Kindle, its a risk with dough etc, but the first chapter I've done is the best stuff I've ever written and is the start of a story that is so far fetched it rings true.
A novel is very much easier, tis true. You will probably need more than just the first chapter though, and most advise some kind of outline to go with it. A few chapters at least. Your funding man isn't a script man, I am guessing, so maybe try and get a scriptwriter/editor to have a look. I bet if you looked at one of those scripts again now you would rewrite some of it. I am guessing you probably won't want to but why not put your first chapter up here??
Ok I'll throw it up next week, I won't throw the overall plot over though as I need to be a bit savvy.
I have tried to merge the comic complexity 'A confederacy of dunces' with the fantastic farcical nature of Tom Sharpe.
It sounds grandiose, but why f**k around? If you're going to have a go then have a go is what I say! so I merged the two styles and then added my own.
It would take up quite a few pages so I wouldn't expect much feedback from people who have actually read it in its entirety but I do expect a lot from those that see my name and just have a pop.
Quote: bigfella @ July 17 2011, 9:43 AM BSTI thought there is a theory that it isn't even the original one anymore.
My understanding is that what we see is a clumsy overpainting of the original, largely undertaken in the 19th century. So if it's the painting we're talking about rather than the painter, then perhaps the joke turns on the figure 19? That makes much more sense, what with it being a prime number.
Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ July 17 2011, 9:11 AM BSTDo you really think I didn't know?
Ah, so you chose to write 14th, knowing it was incorrect. Why do that?
Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ July 17 2011, 9:11 AM BST/... this is becoming crass! Do you really think I didn't know?
Repetition, eh? In the great comedy tradition, of course. May I suggest you repeat it once more, with a variation, to invoke the 'rule of three'. How about "Do I really think you didn't know?" It's not funny, of course, but it works on many different levels.
You're at the back of a big queue when it comes to having a pop at me princess (I presume you're a female poster?)
To be honest I can't be arsed arguing all day I'd rather write comedy, so lets have a truce eh, you don't have to read my stuff if you don't want to.
But if you do could you at least comment on the thing, this post started with an Eskimo caper, yet very few mentioned it at all? The rest is mostly argumentative and that seems to happen with most of my posts.
Now I know I have the capacity to offend, but even I'm surprised at some of the responses, it would seem that I've got more snipers on my case than a German Solider playing a f**king banjo whilst standing on box in the middle of Stalingrad at the height the siege!
Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ July 17 2011, 11:31 AM BST(I presume you're a female poster?)
What gave me away?