The Life of a Writer

Writing. How I love to hate you. Obviously, when you want to perform any kind of standup or sketch comedy, you've really got only yourself to rely on for material. Unless of course you know a writer. That would be helpful.


However, over the almost two years that I've been writing comedy standup and sketches, I've learned a lot from myself. I mean, two years isn't much, but its a start right? I've learned that no matter how much you write per day and/or per page, you are still going to wake up the next day with same writing abilities. It just takes time to get good at it. Which is super annoying. If I had a superpower, I'd choose pro writer. Is that even a thing?


To all of the writers out there, I feel you man. All those drafts, just to realise that what you've written makes no sense, or is extremely boring. In comedy I find that that is the worst possible outcome, when you've put hours of work into a joke, or a sketch, and it turns out to be totally unfunny. But I guess that's why there aren't too many writers out there. Because it takes time and effort, two things that a lot of people don't want to take part in.


In comedy, when you realise your jokes aren't funny, at least you know for sure, and you can change them into something that works. Writing isn't all that difficult, it's just something that needs a lot of tweaking. I mean, look at the page I just wrote. It wasn't that bad. (Ok, maybe it was, but I didn't give up on it. QUITTERS NEVER WIN!)


Until Next Time....
Morgan ^^