The F word: focus

Focusing on your projects is key to completing them successfully.

Whether you're writing gags, sketches or sitcoms - or a mix of all three - writers need the ability to focus.

It's this that will ensure you continue making progress, even when the work is difficult. And, trust us, there will be times when the work is difficult: if comedy writing were easy, everybody would do it.

As James Cary says,

[quote]I think newer writers think they're doing it wrong because the script is hard to write and it's taking a lot longer than they thought it should. If...