Pub Rants

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  1. Ayla said:

    i saw this a few weeks ago and thought “god i hope it isnt like that!” or maybe it is…or maybe she falls in love with a shark, but none of that, definately not that, but something like that?

    Ayla

  2. Cindy Procter-King said:

    Ayla, LOL, sometimes it’s pretty darn close! I’m nearly finished revising, well, more like rewriting, a partial for an editor who called me up and said, “I like everything you’ve done except for how you’ve done it” and asked that I turn the original idea she’d approved inside out and upside-down.

    It’s like going clothes shopping. You know what you like when you see it…

    Cindy

  3. beverley said:

    ROFLMOA!!!!! Oh my goodness that is tooooooo funny. Here is one of the reasons I love British comedies. I grew up watching ‘Some Mother’s do have ’em’ with Michael Crawford and this is so reminiscent of it. Now I need to hunt down this show!! Thanks, this was priceless!

  7. Conduit said:

    Ah, Mitchell and Webb. To see them at their best, check out a series called Peep Show. It’s had four series so far and shows no signs of floundering. It’s the best British comedy since The Office.

    Like all the classic British sit-coms (The Likely Lads, Steptoe and Son, Hancock’s Half Hour, Bottom) Peep Show is a modernisation of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, in which two people who simultaneously love and despise each other battle to leave a relationship they can never escape.

    Or something.

  8. Tammie said:

    Oh now that is too funny. As British humor goes I’m a fan of Absolutely Fabulous with Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley.

    I have from youtube the Stewie talks to Brian about his Novel from Family Guy on my blog.

    These both make me laugh until I cry.

  9. Maprilynne said:

    I saw this a few days ago and have been laughing at it ever since! It’s so precious! I have an agent who is nothing like this, so I can just sit back and enjoy the humor.:)

  13. ~Nancy said:

    As British humor goes I’m a fan of Absolutely Fabulous with Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley.

    Me too, Sweetie! 😉

    Loved the clip. I wish, wish, wish we could get BBC America where I live. ::sigh::

    ~jerseygirl

  14. Deborah K. White said:

    *pained, appalled look*

    I’m with the “please, don’t let it be like that!” crowd. I have no problems with critique groups (unless a critiquer is incredibly vague about what he thinks is wrong). However, it scares me that a well-intentioned agent might end up telling me to write my story their way instead of helping me find where I’m communicating my story wrong so I can fix it. Then again, maybe I’m missing the point of the skit. I’m not one of those people who gets stuck and needs help brainstorming, so someone throwing a bunch of ideas at me unasked for would not be helping.

    Maybe this will seem funnier after I’ve got an agent and editor and I know I can work well with them.

  15. jason evans said:

    I usually don’t laugh out loud at writer angst humor, but that was hilarious!!

    On a serious note, that’s why critiques probably should always begin with the positive. If they begin with the negative, you can be left without any sense of what kind of writer you should be.

    I feel for the guy in the video.

  16. Anonymous said:

    “Then again, maybe I’m missing the point of the skit. I’m not one of those people who gets stuck and needs help brainstorming, so someone throwing a bunch of ideas at me unasked for would not be helping.”

    Exactly – no help at all. This doesn’t happen when you ask your agent or editor to brainstorm with you. It happens when you submit your masterpiece to your agent to sell, or your editor the day your MS is due per contract. You think it’s a pretty great book, and they say, “This really is brilliant, except…” Hopefully it’s never quite this bad, but that’s why this is funny, it’s so over the top.

    Maybe it’s one of those “you had to be there” things. One day (hopefully in the near future), you’ll be chatting with your agent/editor waiting for her to say you wrote a bestseller. Instead, she’ll ask if you agree the story would be stronger if your hero becomes the bad guy. Or, might the villian live in the end, in case the book does well and we want a series? Then you’ll remember this video and go, oh yeah.

  18. Anonymous said:

    If any agents are laughing at this, they are “whistling past the cemetary” because this is how writers really see them when they try to brainstorm, thinking they are helping.

  19. Anonymous said:

    This is what I envision some of the creators of TV shows had thrown at them from higher ups. What if — ?