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Happy belated holidays to you all! To those who go in for it, I hope your Christmas was good. I received a couple of fantastic graphic novels from various family members, including the brilliant '
Batman: Hush' by favourite of mine Jeph Loeb (
The Long Halloween), and a very promising start to Neil Gaiman's
Sandman, about which I have heard excellent things.
Of course, 'tis the season of resolutions and promises to one's self. Now as a rule, I don't usually make them, but then again I never have been one to do something just for the sake of it. This year, however, I actually have something worth sticking to.
I've been toying around with the idea of writing stand-up comedy ever since the end of my first year at university. I was attending one of the talks at Middlesex's annual literary festival, being given by one of our alumni, the very funny Russell Kane. If memory serves, he was even on my course. He was relating the story of how he got into doing stand-up, which was nothing more than a dare from a friend. He just got up there and did it.
As I thought about this in the days afterwards, I started to get lofty ideas; why couldn't
I do that?
Of course, the stage is about as far from my natural home as you can get. Even now, as someone who's fairly confident in their own skin, I get a lump in my throat whenever I get up to speak in front of my classmates - even if the prospect doesn't scare me in the slightest beforehand.
But you know what? Screw it. I'm doing it. One of my housemates (an actress my trade) is beginning a comedy module this semester, and this is the best chance I'm ever going to get at being involved in something like this. I think I'll regret it if I don't at least give it a go, so it has become my official New Year's resolution.
I've been making notes for a few weeks, but as of a few days ago I've actually started writing up a script. Watch this space: I'll let you know when I have more details.
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