I finished The Comic Toolbox and it has good stuff in it. I finished most of the exercises (skipping over the spec sitcom script outline and the editing of past work), and I found them useful. I feel like I’ve got a few structures I can use to hang ideas off of, and that’s farther along than I was before. Spoiler alert: you don’t simply pull spectacularly hilarious quips out of some roiling comic ether that you gain access to with the right magical phrase. That’s been surprisingly helpful for me to hear.

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