If you aspire to be a writer, or you already are one, you’ll probably know just how important it is to “carpe diem”. You need to write when you’re hot to write – and not let the opportunity that nature is giving you to slip through your hands.
It’s a weird feeling; one day, you can write like crazy, you’re full of inspiration and can barely get the words on the page down quickly enough as the thoughts and dialogue in your mind races ahead.
Then the next day, when perhaps you really need to produce the words, every single word can seem like an absolute grind.
Over the years authors have tried many methods to inspire themselves from healthy living and mediation to far less salubrious methods like drugs and alcohol.
For comedy writers, the need to be really lateral is possibly greater than in any other sphere. When you’re feeling good and really ‘up’ and then maybe you use a glass of champagne or two, or three, to lift the sprits even higher and you may find yourself at your most creative. So if you are – seize the moment if you possibly can; it may not come again.
And if you really want to be inspired into a little fresh and offbeat comedic thinking, then I’d recommend you watch the Fast Show over at Fosters.co.uk.
The brand new series is online-only and it truly is inspirational if your tastes run in this kind of zany direction. Watching a few of the funny video clips will really put you in the right kind of mood to draft a few sketches yourself.
And the beauty of sketch show writing is that it’s always original and relatively easy to be so. So watch it – and let yourself be inspired!