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Writing Exercise 2: Can we guess your identity from your writing style?

Bramblethorn said:
It's a bit more uneven than the later series, but I find it hard to rank it against them because it's not quite the same style of comedy.

I'm no historian of comedy so I may well be talking out of my arse, but last time I re-watched the first series it felt a bit like a transition between some older British comedy styles - Pete and Dud, 1066 And All That, the short-skit focus of stuff like Monty Python - and the more sitcom-ish style of the later Blackadders.

It also relies much more heavily on assumed audience knowledge; people who didn't do a lot of Shakespeare and medieval English/European history in school will miss a lot of the jokes about Thomas Ă  Becket, papal indulgences and schisms, and so forth.

I think I'd agree that it's weaker than the others overall but sometimes I appreciate the chaos of Series 1. I did feel like the "Baldric is stupid, hur hur" gags were wearing a bit thin by series 4, as funny as some of them were.
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Allow me a semi-digression into British comedy styles, since you brought up the topic. I saw this Monty Python bit at a movie theater in Brooklyn, NY. Brooklyn audiences back then were a tough group to please. What happened was that my wife and I were the only ones laughing at this while everyone else was staring at the screen with a silent lack of comprehension.

It was now-gone Fortway theater on Fort Hamilton Parkway in Bay Ridge.

 
8 people have PM-ed me some cool/hot scenes already! Totally different styles of course.
 
I'm working one up now - hope to get it to you shortly.
 
nice90sguy said:
I was thinking 10? So two more -- quite a few people are weekend visitors here, so maybe I should wait until Monday
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I'd like to see them sooner than later, but I guess setting a weekend deadline and putting them up Monday makes sense.

Problem is, once you start posting, since you're going to give the names of who has submitted so we have a multiple choice quiz, it doesn't make sense to add any after the deadline. It would be a dead giveaway. But maybe a second round or something.
 
I started to write one myself, but my writing Mojo is completely depleted after a manic writing phase last week.
 
I second the Monday suggestion.

The first exercise by @StillStunned had a writing prompt so it was something you could knock out in like 30 minutes tops (at least I did), but this is trickier. You have to come up with the entire setting, along with the crucial element of it, i.e., the secret. For me it'd be a similar effort to coming up with an initial outline of a full story.

And given that I'm still writing the ending of my Geek Pride submission, I could definitely use some more time for this :)
 
TheLobster said:
I second the Monday suggestion.

The first exercise by @StillStunned had a writing prompt so it was something you could knock out in like 30 minutes tops (at least I did), but this is trickier. You have to come up with the entire setting, along with the crucial element of it, i.e., the secret. For me it'd be a similar effort to coming up with an initial outline of a full story.
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Yeah, I totally agree. I thought I was making it easier by being less specific, but it's much harder.
 
Different exercises. Mine was about seeing as many different approaches as possible to a very specific situation. This one is about seeing how distinctive our styles are.

From the number of very responses to my thread, I think we can draw the conclusion that the hardest part of writing is deciding what to write about. :)
 
As far as I'm concerned, the both of you are very. So very, very. I don't think I can put into words just how very I think you are right now.
 
nice90sguy said:
Yeah, I totally agree. I thought I was making it easier by being less specific, but it's much harder.
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I think I need more coffee. Maybe I am missing something, but I don't think I can attach a file from my folders into a PM to you. That means that I'd have to copy the entire text into the message to you?
 
gunhilltrain said:
I think I need more coffee. Maybe I am missing something, but I don't think I can attach a file from my folders into a PM to you. That means that I'd have to place the entire text into the message to you?
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Yes, the entire whopping 500 word file. We've all written posts far longer than that multiple times. Cut/paste is such a bitch, I know. : P
 
gunhilltrain said:
I think I need more coffee. Maybe I am missing something, but I don't think I can attach a file from my folders into a PM to you. That means that I'd have to copy the entire text into the message to you?
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Yup, the ol' Ctrl+C Ctrl+V. No attachments in PMs here on Lit.
 
nice90sguy said:
I watch these guys sometimes struggling with, but clearly loving, British comedy.
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Oddly, the two Yanks watching him have a slightly more mature Beavis and Butthead vibe going on - like wearing wearing baseball caps backwards is a very American habit I think. In military matters, the British have had their share of snafus - Singapore, Gallipoli, the Somme, the First Boer war, their initial battles in the Sudan and Zululand - hell, the whole American Revolution. Perhaps it's best that they have let us take over the reins of building an empire and making the biggest mistakes.
 
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