This is the script for a comedic short I wrote over the weekend called Beer Fort. It’s about a fort, a fort full of beer. I finished the final(?) draft and edited it late last night, while you were all dreaming your dreams and sleeping your sleeps.
Anyway, Beer Fort is only three pages long, I will most likely be the only person in it, and I will probably end up filming and editing the damn thing myself. So why did I bother printing and binding it? Why did I even bother formatting it properly or even making a title page? Because there are few things in life that feel as good as finishing something, being able to feel and hold it and rub it with your hands and various other body parts. For me, at least.
Now I’m going down to the grocery store to buy two bottles of pineapple juice, my champagne. One to celebrate Beer Fort and, of course, one to celebrate Claudia, my Internet sister*, giving birth to her beautiful baby boy.
Congratulations, Claudia and Ken!
*Does this make me an Internet uncle?

This is the script for a comedic short I wrote over the weekend called Beer Fort. It’s about a fort, a fort full of beer. I finished the final(?) draft and edited it late last night, while you were all dreaming your dreams and sleeping your sleeps.

Anyway, Beer Fort is only three pages long, I will most likely be the only person in it, and I will probably end up filming and editing the damn thing myself. So why did I bother printing and binding it? Why did I even bother formatting it properly or even making a title page? Because there are few things in life that feel as good as finishing something, being able to feel and hold it and rub it with your hands and various other body parts. For me, at least.

Now I’m going down to the grocery store to buy two bottles of pineapple juice, my champagne. One to celebrate Beer Fort and, of course, one to celebrate Claudia, my Internet sister*, giving birth to her beautiful baby boy.

Congratulations, Claudia and Ken!

*Does this make me an Internet uncle?

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You know what’s funny about jokes?

I once said “If someone tells you that they are technically in the entertainment industry, they are literally unemployed”.

I’m unemployed.

At the moment I am writing a script. A comedic script. I’m really enjoying and am learning a lot from the process and I love writing my script in Star Bucks and mentioning that I’m writing a script to whoever doesn’t ask. Just like all the great writers of the world. (I’m actually only half-joking. What can I say? I love iced green tea and iced tea is a bitch to make sometimes.)

One of the things that I’m quickly learning from this experience is that writing comedy is an arduous experience. Why? Well, just like any script you write, you will find youself re-reading it and re-writing it over and over. Those jokes just don’t seem as funny the hundredth time you’ve read it.

If I took a step back and looked at this kind of situation logically, I know that they are the same jokes and situations that I scribbled down in my note book on the bus, laughing to myself and making the passengers near me nervous.

It’s hard to think logically when it comes to art though, isn’t it? The mind helps, but art comes from the heart. (They rhyme and everything!) When you write, your brain and your heart open a bottle of wine and make a mess with each other.

It’s an ugly and sticky process but it’s worth it. At least I like to think so.

When (I won’t say “if”) this script is turned into a show and the pictures in my head are mirrored on your TV screens, it’ll be worth all the self-doubt and re-writing and odd smelling urine from drinking roughly two liters of green tea a day.

Maybe I’ll start blogging the process of writing the script and trying to get it made…

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