Nebenkosten - Extra Changes

Editing can be addictive. Continually making extra changes can ruin what was an originally good piece of writing. The first draft can sometimes be so pure it needs no work whatsoever, but still the temptation to comb through it again and again can be great, but potentially destructive. That’s why for this article, regardless of how badly it turns out, I’m not going to change a single thing. At all. Except that - I wrote “Aat all” originally, and that would just be silly. It perhaps would have had helped to have a better idea initially, but there’s no turning back now! Clearly I’m not one for taking my own advice though. I’m in the process of writing my very first stand up comedy routine and I’m utterly terrified. It’s imperative the jokes I choose to perform really hit home and are the funniest they possibly can be, utilizing the most succinct adjectives and comically apt nouns. But that’s just the half of it! I have to work out the tone of voice, the pace of delivery, the comic timing and general stage posture and microphone technique. I’m not one for self-confidence or arrogance, but I’m almost certain I’m funnier than at least half of the regular performers at the night I’ll make my debut five minutes, but that’s irrelevant if the delivery goes fully tits-up. So continually making extra changes, combing through and fine-tuning my material is basically what I’ll be doing for the next two weeks, and while I am very aware it could kill the jokes, it’s better than being under prepared and having massive regrets. I hope. Otherwise I’ll, for years to come, totally regret making those two weeks of extra changes.