Laughing It Up Writer!! Blogfest!!

Today, we celebrate all that makes a writer silly. I'm supposed to post a quote, story, joke, or anything in said 'silly-writer-realm' to encourage, move, and yes, even amaze you.

One just to make you ponder why we write: ** There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer. When asked to define great, he said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!"

He now works for Microsoft writing error messages.

This one should move you to cheering on our focus as writers: ** A screenwriter comes home to a burned down house. His sobbing and slightly-singed wife is standing outside. “What happened, honey?” the man asks.

“Oh, John, it was terrible,” she weeps. “I was cooking, the phone rang. It was your agent. Because I was on the phone, I didn’t notice the stove was on fire. It went up in second. Everything is gone. I nearly didn’t make it out of the house. Poor Fluffy is--”

“Wait, wait. Back up a minute,” The man says. “My agent called?”


Yeah, and finally we see a REAL outlined draft: ** How many screenwriters does it take to change a light bulb? Answer:  Ten

1st draft.   Hero changes light bulb.
2nd draft.  Villain changes light bulb.
3rd draft.  Hero stops villain from changing light bulb. Villain falls to death.
4th draft.  Lose the light bulb.
5th draft.  Light bulb back in.  Fluorescent instead of  tungsten.
6th draft.  Villain breaks bulb, uses it to kill hero's  mentor.
7th draft.  Fluorescent not working.  Back to tungsten.
8th draft.  Hero forces villain to eat light bulb.
9th draft.  Hero laments loss of light bulb. Doesn't change it.
10th draft.  Hero changes light bulb.

RELATE ANY??? :)

NEED MORE LAUGHTER?? Take a PEEK at the other participants. What better day to laugh about all it takes to be us than Monday??

Do you have something writerly related and silly to share???