Maybe I'll be a compulsive liar - more possibilities than OCD.
Sitcom Writing Idea! Page 5
but will you really be a compulsive liar? i just dont know anymore
Who me? I've never told a lie in my life.........
How 'bout an Ed Norton(Fight Club)character who goes to these things, but there's nothing wrong with them?
This might make seem a little impatient, but I think a few things need to be decided upon for definite. How many characters are there going to be? Will they all have phobias? How many writers are there going to be? What will the plot be? I really think this could work and it would be nice if we could get cracking. Sorry if it feels like I'm trying to rush things along too fast.
I've got a fairly good idea of what to do plot wise for the first episode, but I just need to know what phobias/addictions the characters have before I expand on it.
I've thought of a good plot with a sex addict and a person who doesn't like been touched sharing a double bed in the hotel. Also the gambling addict ends up spending all of their budget in the hotel casino. While the food addict sets up his own Room Service for the hotel guests because the real hotel room service doesn't operate 24/7. And the hypachondriac character gets into a confrontation with a family who's Grandad is ill and dying.
But thats just characters I've come up with and I don't know if other people will be willing to write for them.
If this has moved away from my original idea and has become a just an ordinary "Sitcom Project". I'll be more inclined to join back in and would love to be part of the team, throwing in ideas.
I had doubts about each individual controlling a characters dialog and if that's still the case, in the words of a Dragon, "I'm out."
Sorry - I'm totally confused now.
So Lee - don't you like your original idea? Just someone please organise it, let us know who you want involved and how it's going to work.
No I don't like it. But I do like the idea of us all collaborating on a sitcom in the normal way. Much like the Sketch Show Project on here.
As for organising it, don't look at me 
I missed out on the Sketch Show Project so don't know how it works - or how it can. It must need loads of organising. Does everyone involved need to be connected at the same time and then we take it in turns to throw in lines?
Well I said I'd organise this but I can't work out a proper plot until I know the characters involved. If people don't mind me just making up the phobias/addictions of the characters then I'll get to work straight away on the plot. And then I can post what I've got up and then people can work dialouge and jokes into it from there.
If the phobia thing isnt really working for people, then feel free to change the idea now.
As an outsider looking in, I've really enjoyed reading this but I agree the idea of each person supplying their character's next line is original but imo unworkable.
In a sitcom, each scene should know where it's going, each line should have a purpose. When people chip in lines real-time, you lose the all-important control over drive and direction. That's why few scenes featuring geezers in a local pub having a seemingly random conversation are, in fact, far from random but planned in meticulous detail by the writer(s).
From my perspective as an outsider, one of you needs to take control and set the agenda. Decide premise, and the characters needed to drive plots. Whether you each form one character or decide together on them all is not important. The most important thing is that each character has at least one reason to be an ally of every other main character (e.g. A and B are both single parents so have a shared empathy) and a reason to conflict (e.g. A is strict with their children, B thinks this is not the correct way).
Once you have a set of characters (whether you control one character each or whether you have input into all the characters) then decide on some plots. Choose the funniest idea with most potential, write out the plot in sentences. Make each sentence / paragraph a scene. Each scene must be able justify its existence with plot and character development. An independent scene tagged in for no reason but that it's funny is a sketch, not a scene.
I like the disorders premise and liked the basic plot outlined above but would avoid the 'Fight Club' style character suggested above. You have to create original characters, not hijack them. Your audience would immediately recognise Durden in your script. He's too iconic to disguise.
You had to dump on my idea, why I oughta!!
To defend my idea, the character would only share the fact that they attend these things, the character I imagined bared no other resemblance to Fight Clubs.
But it was just an idea, a conflict for later on.
I think I'll drop out and watch from the sidelines. I'd like to contribute but I've got no idea how it would work.
I've not been involved in this but how about taking some-one's idea of writing about a group of writers on a web forum. The common thread could be that they all meet on a writers' forum. The individual part could be their own story away from the net in the real world. You may be able to work in a twist or underlying sub plot. Each person could work on their or another's own story.
It was only an idea!