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Apparently I Can Write It. I Just Can’t Listen to It.

“

Some conversations can't be put off forever"

— Lee

Hey cakers. I’ve got a Special Bonus Mind Bite for you.

And it turns out there’s something much worse than performing your own work in public. Sitting two feet away while somebody else performs it.

A while ago, I wrote a dark comedy called Inevitable, about Brian and Tom and a conversation that’s been put off for rather too long.

On Saturday 10th October, Gemma and Anne are performing a 15-minute version of it at Scripts the Thing at the Corn Exchange in Dorchester.

So I thought it would be a good idea to get them on the podcast. Then Gemma and Anne performed it for me.

It was ... excruciating.

Not because of them. They were great.

Because apparently hearing words you wrote quietly in the safety of your own head coming out of actual human beings sitting directly in front of you is VERY WEIRD.

I dealt with this maturely. I stared at my notebook and doodled. A lot.

Once I’d recovered, we talked about Brian and Tom, the comedy, what’s going on underneath it all, and what Gemma and Anne have discovered by actually getting the thing up on its feet.

So this week’s Mind Bite contains 90 seconds of Inevitable, approximately 20 minutes of conversation, and one writer trying very hard to look like he’s casually drawing rather than experiencing a minor existential event.

Listen to Gemma & Anne