Passion and Chips

A fiver the Blue Nun bottles it

Works under consideration: 14 (been busy)
Dark Angel: I’m wearing boots
Pyrates: They be nearby
Nominations: 1
State of Mind: Drowsy Clown,
Comedy WordMix: Lapping-Hicks, Banana-booted Connolly, Bob Hope ski-nose, and Phil Jupitus with a pipe

Channel 4Laughs Competitions
I’ve entered some more competitions including the caption contest on Channel 4 4Laughs Web site. And sent some sketches to Ten in Bed Theatre’s 'Comedy Toboggan' sketch thingy. Am I feeling confident? Nope. I’ve entered so many competitions and have had only a couple of so-so successes including a TV credit.

Now a rousing chorus of ‘We Shall Overcome!’

World Domination of the Comedy Web
A little bit of progress today with some short viral video. Hope to have these somewhere on the sunny side of the interweb in the next few days.

Blue Cat Man
If you want to read a real ‘Gawd he makes money out of it’ comedy writer have a look at James Henry’s blog as he has a long and funny entry about rewrites.

Passion
If you don’t have passion – don’t write. It really is that simple. You have to love what you do. Do you love what you do? Then STOP IT! I love comedy. I love making people laugh. But I had the ‘Editor’ in my head this morning. You know the one “You’re useless, you can’t write, why don’t you forget the whole writing thing!’ The bastard! I kept going through the hangover and came up with a few captions for the Channel 4 competition What kept me going? Passion to find the line, the laugh.*

The Editor
There are many ways of dealing with this BASTARD! One that I used a lot is to write him/her/Russell Brand out is to give myself 10 minutes writing all the negative things about myself and what I write. Really deep loathing of self and how useless I was. It gets it out of your system. You have to acknowledge ‘The Editor’ but never give over control. Look at your passion and why you write. Revisit your passions, the why you write.

The other ‘writing tool’ to try is called ‘My Sweetheart’ in which you give yourself 10 minutes to write all the positive about yourself and your writing. If this doesn’t work go and relax and just keep a small part of your mind ‘worrying’ the project.

Chips
Or fries, as they say in foreign parts, also work.

THE PYRATES ENTER THE BLOG. ALL THREE ARE WEARING BIG YELLOW ROSETTES

GRANITE:
Vote! Vote! Vote for Captain Nice!

WOODY:
You know it makes sense.

CAPTAIN NICE:
All you good, good people…

CWiW:
Wait a moment!

PYRATES ALL:
AYE! BELIKE!

CWiW:
What the hell are you doing now?

WOODY:
The Captain is standing for leadership of the Liberal Democratic Slavery and Minor Debauchery Party.

GRANITE:
GO CAP’!

CWiW:
Give me strength. Look you’re Pyrates aren’t you?

PYRATES ALL:
AYE!

CWiW:
You should be out flouting rules, boarding ships, looting, and generally misbehaving and not organizing yourself into a collective of dogma. You are free spirits, Free-booting-kick-ass-say-no-to-Sunday-Supplements-and-LifeStyle-Awards-Pyrates! BELIKE!

PYRATES ALL:
BELIKE!

CAPTAIN NICE:
O’

GRANITE AND WOODY LOOK SHEEPISH. THEY LOOK DOWN AT THEIR FEET

CAPTAIN NICE:
I haven’t thought this through. Men! Now is the time to embrace our destiny! Now is the time to, er, DO SOME DEVILRY!

ALL:
BELIKE! DEVILRY! AYE!

THE PYRATES EXIT ‘APACE’ ROSETTES FLUTTER TO THE FLOOR OF THE BLOG

CWiW:



CAPTAIN NICE: (V.O.)
You’ve run out of words again.

CWiW:
Bugger! Not again. Did you look behind the fridge?


CAPTAIN NICE: (V.O.)
There they are!

CAPTAIN NICE RETURNS TO THE BLOG

CWiW:
Thank you. I’ll have those ones.

COMEDY WRITER IN WAITING CAREFULLY SELECTS THE WORDS HE NEEDS. HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

CWiW: (cont.)
Captain Nice exits.

EXIT CAPTAIN NICE

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Tune into the next blog
For some ‘moving pictures’ a fish supper, and we’ll visit the secret place where the Banditos roam.


*Help! I’m being soooooo serious!