Big Comedy Conference video: Plotting

This recording of a session at our last conference is now online. Lucy Lumsden looks at the subject of sitcom plots with Adam Kay, Daniel Lawrence Taylor, Daniel Peak and Brona C Titley.

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From the archive

Features from our library of insightful content.

The First-Draft Freewrite

Ed Amsden and Tom Coles deliver an impassioned plea in defence of a first-draft freewrite.

Do you want to write a book?

You can't really write a book on a whim. Is this something you really want to do?

It was lovely to meet some of you face-to-face in Birmingham at the weekend. Where next (apart from London on Tuesday)? Tell us via our events page.

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Want to learn stand-up or looking for a good Christmas gift for someone who does? Chris Head's London-based course starts in January. Meanwhile, for just two weeks, Dave Cohen's Script Reading Services are discounted.

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