Weekend Writers' Room
Sat March 7 edition. Pitch your comedy ideas here!
Welcome to Weekend Writers’ Room! Glad to see you here.
An announcement before we get into it. I’m opening up three 1-1 humor writing coaching spots this Spring.
Want a ton of detailed feedback on your humor writing, and your big picture goals, from me? Here’s what it would involve:
6-week intensive coaching program, starting in March.
You’ll send me lots of humor pitches every single week. A minimum of 10-15 weekly ideas. I’ll help you vet the best ideas.
We’ll review multiple drafts over the period, and I’ll give you detailed feedback on your drafts. We’ll go iterative and highly nitty-gritty to make sure you break through any limitations, bad habits, or pitfalls.
Feedback on publishing your work.
Feedback on your overall goals and what you should work on, craft-wise, to keep growing.
Program can be customized (within certain boundaries) to your situation.
Limited to three people total. (Note: the coaching is 1-1, not in a group though.)
If this interests you, just DM me on Substack, and we’ll talk!
This post is 100% for you to pitch comedy ideas and get feedback from your fellow writers, in the comments section.
Weekend Writers’ Room posts will drop the first and third Saturday of the month.
Use the comments section to pitch ideas and help others.
You can also use it to ask questions, or riff on whatever’s been on your mind lately, comedy-writing-wise.
What to pitch:
Short lists of comedy piece headlines or stand-up jokes. Up to 10 items per list, max please. (shorter lists of 5-6 may get better responses.)
Sketch comedy or story premise ideas. (Recommendation: pitch 1-3 premise ideas total. A few sentences per pitch.)
Something longer? Go for it. e.g. A partial draft, a full draft of something, with a request for a reader or a request to trade comments. Much longer pitches (> 300 words) should be a link to a shared Google Doc with comments enabled.
The Writers’ Room is freewheeling. You can pitch anything. More concise pitches and shorter lists are more likely to get feedback.
Giving feedback:
For lists, respond with which jokes/ideas are your favorite(s).
You can explain why something works or doesn’t work for you.
You can pitch suggestions or ideas for improving something.
Critical feedback (“This didn’t work for me!”) is helpful. If everyone’s too nice, the value of Writers’ Room is lessened.
Give any type of feedback you think is helpful to the writer.
If you pitch, give feedback to others. The Writers’ Room only works if we’re all pretty generous with feedback.
This post goes up Saturday at 5 am Central. Feel free to contribute or respond throughout Saturday and Sunday and beyond, but activity may taper off after a couple days.
