![]() There is strong emphasis on sentence structure and speech isn’t broken off like people tend to do when they talk to each other.Īnother way to improve dialogue is to think through your characters. I do a lot of writing, so sometimes in my sketch comedy dialogue sounds too much like it’s, well, written. ![]() Think about how people really speak to each other. Look for where it doesn’t sound natural or feels forced. The best way to know if your dialogue makes sense is to say it out loud as you read it. So, how do you rewrite a sketch anyway? I think there are three main ways to improve upon a first draft of a sketch: Louis, MO) the writers are expected to come up with a first and second draft and then we still provide feedback to make corrections to the piece throughout the month. But, that’s become our process.įor STL Sketchpad, (our live comedy show in St. It’s a little sloppy and sometimes we get real klunkers into the show. For Welcome Thru Effingham (our sketch comedy podcast), we write the first draft of sketches and then improvise when we get in the studio. ![]() At the very least, every sketch should go through a second draft. Yet, when a lot of sketch writers write, they stop after the first draft and call it a sketch. There is always a better game or pattern to develop. In fact, I would argue that sketch comedy pieces can never be finished. In my mind, I’m done, but I have a sneaking suspicion that once I get the next copy, I’ll still find errors or paragraphs where I’m not quite saying what I want, the way I want. I just finished the fifth revision of my book, Keep Creating. A first draft is important, but the real writing whether it’s a book, an article, this blog post or a sketch comedy piece comes in writing the second, third and/or fourth drafts. Two different quotes, but they sort of say the same thing. “Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist” - Jane Smiley “The first draft of anything is shit.” - Ernest Hemingway
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