Stand Up Writing, Class Outline. paulsveen@shaw.ca

To register for this class send a transfer of 275.00 to paulsveen@shaw.ca

Once your funds are deposited I’ll send you a writing exercise to give you a pre-class work out.

The out line for my Stand Up Class is as follows:

Class 1: Stand up Writing, tagging.

Class 2: Theme, emotion and premise.

Class 3: Framing, inserting material into our theme.

Class 4: The business of Stand Up.

Class 5 Preparing for a performance.

-Just like listening to an MC as a comedian, It’s important to listen to your class mates when they’re on stage, ask yourself why a certain thing they said connected to you, also, how would you share an idea they had if you wrote it (tagging.) This ability challenges you to see ideas from another perspective.

-Always record your set when you’re on stage so you can listen to it during the week. This is also tagging because you can find ways to improve on the idea. And again, listening is another point on the circle besides writing.

-I ask that while you’re in Stand Up Writing that you journal 3 pages every day if you can. Writing a journal and exploring a premise within 3 pages will have a profound effect on your writing .

-It’s important to go over your set every day. 15 minutes is great. 5 if you’re in a rush. Sharpening your saw and rehearsing your set each day, adding tags and editing older ideas as well as giving the people in your set their own voice and perspective gives your set layers.

-I will have your homework on my blog the next day after class. You can see this at: www.paulsveen.com

-Unless the date changes, December 15in Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club will be the grad night for our class. We’ll be raising money for Highlands Dog Rescue. Tickets are 10$ at the door.

– I’m a nationally touring Comedian. If you’re interested in bringing me or my work shop or my Stand Up to your next event or business, please E mail me at: paulsveen@shaw.ca

– I can be seen on You Tube and Face Book. My Novel “The Angel’s Claw.” Is available through my web site on Book Baby and at Indigo North Town Mall 9450-137 Avenue. I have a book signing October 17 at this location from noon until four PM. If you can make it to the signing I can share more information about the class with you.  If you have any questions about my class, my novel, or booking information, E Mail me please at: paulsveen@shaw.ca

Everything I share in my Stand Up Writing Class you can apply to your: stand up, public speaking, business, social events and life. The key to my 5 week class is theme! We mine the theme the patterns of your life, your voice, your vein of gold.

Once we begin to locate our themes we then write material from this pattern. We no longer look for the punchline we look for YOU, your theme in the premise. The set we build in my class as well as the lessons build off of your strengths, your theme your vein of gold!

What this achieves is your market brand your Coke! When we locate the stories in your life, the moments that are in your creative DNA, we not only locate who you truly are as well as well as your market brand, in locating your theme, we also locate your confidence, your courage your inspiration and most important, your audience.

In creative matters, voice is everything. It’s what makes us original, dynamic and noticeable. Too often we get lost in the line up everyone else is standing in, everyone chasing the same carrot. I believe each of us should be the creative force that is desired, we’re the carrot, we should be where the line up leads to. Trust your bliss follow it.  My class is where it begins. I hope to see you there.

If you’re interested in being in my next class, E MAIL me at: paulsveen@shaw.ca

Before I begin the final blog for this September writing class I want to thank everyone who registered for my class and especially Carla and Sarah for putting in the work each week. You inspire me ladies.

Second, I want to remind everyone that I can bring my work shops to your office and also perform Stand Up Nationally and would love to perform at your Christmas Party or Fundraiser. E mail me at: paulsveen@shaw.ca for any and all inquiries.

FINAL CLASS AND GRAD NIGHT!

Alright, as you read this blog, close your eyes and see yourself on stage Tuesday night! Feel the laughter, hear the audience applause, feel the joy of all the hard work you put in to make your performance happen! How does it feel to being doing so well? How does it feel to pause after each joke and allow the audience to laugh? How does your frame feel, your story, and the jokes you inserted into your frame?

Now it’s Wednesday. You’re thinking about all the compliments you received the night before, thinking about your jokes and your frame and you’re happy about your set but are thinking, if I had a second chance, what would I do differently?

1) Go over your FRAME/STORY. Say your frame without the TAGS/JOKES say the story, record it and listen to it. Make sure you know the story, the beginning, middle and end as well as the POINT of the story as well as all the sub points. ( While you’re speaking out loud, allow your energy to be POSITIVE! Let go of all doubt, regret, self negative talk and immerse yourself in the creative fuel of self kindness and certainty!

OPENING JOKE. This is built off the first sentence in your STORY that will be the FRAME of your SET. My first sentence is: “I don’t know what I’m doing. I went to the Halifax Comedy Festival and made fun of Anne Murray.”

Our OPENING JOKE achieves a few things: It gets the audience’s attention, it shares our THEME ( mine is, I don’t know what I’m doing. It’s a good idea to share your theme in your opening joke.) Our opening joke lets the audience like us! It’s always wise yo GET TO THE POINT in the opening joke. SARCASM as well as SIMILE, making comparisons  is a great vehicle for this, So EXPLORE THE SARCASM and comparisons  in YOUR opening joke.

What’s the SARCASM in my opening joke? (over the top statements?) What about the misdirection ? (Setting up a joke for an unexpected PUNCHLINE?

MISDIRECTION: 1) Premise, locate the emotion of the premise. locate the exact opposite point. 3) Insert three statements that amplify the premise. This is where the bait and switch takes place, taking the audience from where you’re going.)

I made fun of Anne Murray at the Halifax Comedy Festival.   Emotion: stupid, misinformed, insensitive, delusional. Here’s an example of what I came up with:

“I made fun of Anne Murray at the Halifax Comedy Festival,  not my smartest moment. I should have went all the way and made fun of Sea food, Stompin Tom Conners and the Great Big Sea. Doesn’t matter, they’ll never hear about it in Fort-Mcmurray.

Try using this template: premise, locate the emotion, then use the 3 statements then locate a point opposite of your premise. Here I used Halifax and Fort Mcmurray.

REMEMBER: invite as may friends as you can for Tuesday, we’re raising funds for a dog rescue. Have fun rehearsing! See you in class Monday!!!!

paulsveen@shaw.ca