I've lost my keys.

'Ha ha!' Quick! Where's my notebook - 'Ah, shit it's gone.' Once again a potential laugh has floated away into the locked room of forgotten ideas. I'm sure I told it to wait. Oh well, I'm sure he'll come for a cuppa again soon, maybe when I'm in the shower. Oh, but I won't have my notebook in the shower it'll get wet an the pages will get stuck together and then ALL my ideas will be lost and I'll be left looking for that bloody key to open the locked door of the lost.

I hate writing, when you feel you have to. When the letters trudge out like the next block falling in a Tetris game. I love writing when the words flow like your hair as the wind runs through it while you're on the back of a dove. 

One of my secrets, which isn't so much a secret because many creative types do it, is to keep something near by that I can scribble a word or 2 on that'll make me remember later. 

Some of mine are as follows: 

- Toast Ghosts (Which sounds cool, more of a children's TV show, maybe I should go into that) 

- Poop (Just that - I don't know what's funny about poop anymore - or what isn't! Hahahaha, woah I'm hilarious)  

- Caveman, buses, shops (Yeah, decipher that one, if you can) 

And last but not least. 

- Tomato sun ( Erm - What? ) 

If anyone can tell me what went through my head that was so brilliantly funny that day, it would be appreciated. 

What I do is think of a punchline then write around it. It helps to do that instead of trying to write from the first line of the joke/story/script ect. That's my preference anyway. 

The difficulty comes from finding something that hasn't been done yet. Or if it has, you need to come in from another angle and write something even more hilarious than what's already been done.  

But it's hard! 

I love it when you've done a gig and you improvised a bit on stage or you thought of something that would have been funny at the time and wrote it in, or wrote around it. I know I've only done a gig so I'm far from the expert but it's already happened to me. I have now already got a nearly new set. 

Don't not write if you come blank. Write anything, put everything down. Even if it doesn't make sense - try to come up with things that don't make sense: 

 - Flinging grass into screwdriver bellies makes a great night out -

 - Running in on the bread pushing the glass out of the fridge - 

 - Afro protein - 

And so on... 

Write words as they come to your head, you might find that you can make something out of it. Plus, it's great fun and can be quite a laugh - It's called free writing, I think. 

- Unfortunately,  I couldn't do my 2nd gig last night as someone fell ill at Wimbledon station and I couldn't make it there on time. So, Tuesday - hopefully! 

I will probably write this again once I get into it more. I have been writing jokes for a few years but not actually got up to do them in front of people, I write poems and short stories too.

Phew.. Glad that's over!

Why don't you share your weird thoughts and notes - maybe try free writing in the comments?