Only an audience of two, but I got some good laughs with the vacation bit.
Times are a bit tough right now. The words aren't coming too easy. I wrote a good chapter Sunday night, but that's been it for the week. Lots of stress at work has slowed down the creative juices.
The best bad set I ever had. Huge crowd, great laughers. My set wasn't that great, but the crowd liked it.
Small crowd, but after a rough start it went well. I did a few new jokes that worked pretty well, then went into the gay website routine.
A strange thing has happened lately. After my sets I get the sudden urge to flee. I used to love to sit and watch the showcase at 10, but now I have this undeniable desire to go home. Strange.
I'm in a strange place in my novel right now. For a long time I've been in a haze about how to flesh out certain parts of the story. Now a new sub-plot has emerged which answers all the questions I had. This hasn't made the writing easier though. Now I spend my efforts trying to fulfill my expectations. I'm stifling the characters. I have to learn to write scenes in a vacuum, then try to make sense of things in rewrites. The novel is too big for me to follow the continuity methods of my short stories. This is going to take some practice.
Great days these days. Plowing trough scenes. One surprise after another. The last few mornings I've got up early, and before anything else I sit down and write for a couple hours. Great outpouring of ideas and energy. I know this won't last for Monady it's back to work, but I've had a wonderful glimpse into what life will be in a few years when I'm able to support myself through my writing. Unlike when I had a taste of comedy on the road, I liked what I saw.
I had great energy tonight. Wrote some stuff just before the show that worked pretty good. A couple of ad-libs, that I remembered to write down, that worked very well. I even got a friendly heckle that I had some fun with. I bogged down at the end with a long setup for what turned out to be a weak punchline. Overall a good set.
I also noticed some of the writing methodology slipping into my bit prep. I tried to do this several times over the
last year with no success. Tonight it happened without me noticing till after the fact. This is my true creative voice.
I hope I can bring more of it to the stage.