Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writersby Mike Sacks
~post by Steve(n)
It is a paradoxical testament to the excellence and effectiveness of Mike Sachs’s captivating new writing guide Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writers that it is all but impossible to read it uninterrupted for any appreciable amount of time. Anyone who aspires to be creative can confirm that a fine balance must be struck between consumption and generation of media, and Poking a Dead Frog, as a reference, is so overwhelmingly inspirational, that it forces a skew in the equilibrium of productivity. Read any amount of this book, and you won’t be able to help yourself. Well before you’ve reached a logical stopping point in the chapter, you will have unconsciously grabbed a pen, found a long-overlooked composition notebook, ignored any inhibitions or nagging self doubts, and just started…
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