{"id":181,"date":"2009-01-03T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wwwold.sketchwar.org\/?p=181"},"modified":"2009-01-03T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T04:10:00","slug":"peters-commentary-on-the-christmas-presents-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Peter’s Commentary on the ‘Christmas Presents’ Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still a bit behind in writing commentary on the Friday Sketch War. I thought I’d deliver a few words about the “Christmas Presents” round.<\/p>\n

We’d talked about maybe skipping the 12\/26 week of sketchwar, on account of everybody’d be busy with the holidays. But a couple of us believed strongly in the “it’s easier to keep writing than to stop and then start again” school of writing. We compromised by having a week where we just wrote mini-scenes. Two lines of dialog. Like comedy-sketch haiku.<\/p>\n

The results of the “Sketch Skirmish” are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I had fun with my little two-line thing. Given the freedom to toss off anything without worrying about developing it for a few pages, I wound up with the sort of mean-spirited surrealism that characterizes most of the humor in my immediate family. The other two competitors were more talk-y and think-y, which resulted in exchanges that were rather interesting, whereas mine was just a quick, “Wait, what just happened?!”<\/p>\n

All in all, I declare the compromise plan a success. We all were able to throw something together, and we were well-prepared to keep the train going the following week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still a bit behind in writing commentary on the Friday Sketch War. I thought I’d deliver a few words about the “Christmas Presents” round. We’d talked about maybe skipping the 12\/26 week of sketchwar, on account of everybody’d be busy with the holidays. But a couple of us believed strongly in the “it’s easier to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47,49],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","tag-christmas-presents","tag-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}