Jordan Peele's advice for overcoming writer's block
"If you’re not having fun writing, you’re doing it wrong."
Over at Working Methods (it’s like this Substack, but for creatives in general, not just comedians), Jordan Peele talks about what he learned writing Get Out and Key & Peele:
When you have fun writing, that’s the material that works. My advice to anybody dealing with writers’ block is to follow the fun. If you’re not having fun writing you’re doing it wrong. Shift up your tactic. I’ve been in comedy for many years, and often times that sketch I thought was going to work and be brilliant, doesn’t work. But that simple, stupid sketch you cracked yourself up on will work. The process of having fun doing the work is visible to the audience.
Evocative of what Birbigs talks about here:
More Working Methods posts about comedians.
