http://www.cantplaypiano.com Conquering the world at a rate of three furlongs per fortnight Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:42:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cantplaypiano.com/2011/08/trillion-to-one-idea#comment-19 GrumpusNation Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:42:20 +0000 http://www.cantplaypiano.com/?p=78#comment-19 It's hard to offer career advice, especially if you want to "monetize" the whole comedy thing, an industry about which I know nothing (except from enjoying). If you want to pursue it as a love or a hobby, that frees you, obviously, to do as you wish. (If you haven't seen http://robdelaney.tumblr.com/howtomakeitincomedy, it doesn't offer much concrete help, but what it says isn't bad). Is stand up your thing? Or writing? I think we're in something of a golden age for amateur comedy, with so many good and popular twitter accounts, not to mention the comments section on things like The Onion, proving that the audience is out there. If I knew how to make something go viral, believe me, I wouldn't tell you, I'd be monetizing it myself, but hard work and persistence are the only ways there. The old design school aphorism "Good designers make 90% junk; if you're afraid to make it, you won't get to the good 10%" holds true for pretty much everything, as my backlog of quite deformed cakes demonstrates. You have to make a lot, and then more, and then still more to get to the good stuff. Once you define what you want to do, define a schedule for yourself, and keep at it. Predictability helps build an audience. Post something every day, and something longer once a week, minimum. It’s hard to offer career advice, especially if you want to “monetize” the whole comedy thing, an industry about which I know nothing (except from enjoying). If you want to pursue it as a love or a hobby, that frees you, obviously, to do as you wish. (If you haven’t seen http://robdelaney.tumblr.com/howtomakeitincomedy, it doesn’t offer much concrete help, but what it says isn’t bad). Is stand up your thing? Or writing? I think we’re in something of a golden age for amateur comedy, with so many good and popular twitter accounts, not to mention the comments section on things like The Onion, proving that the audience is out there. If I knew how to make something go viral, believe me, I wouldn’t tell you, I’d be monetizing it myself, but hard work and persistence are the only ways there. The old design school aphorism “Good designers make 90% junk; if you’re afraid to make it, you won’t get to the good 10%” holds true for pretty much everything, as my backlog of quite deformed cakes demonstrates. You have to make a lot, and then more, and then still more to get to the good stuff. Once you define what you want to do, define a schedule for yourself, and keep at it. Predictability helps build an audience. Post something every day, and something longer once a week, minimum.

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