And So The Mind Reels

Ep.6  Lee Mueller has been spent many years in sketch comedy groups and writing comedy plays. Why do certain jokes work and others do not? Could it be the way they are written or could it be the person telling them?  What is funny and why do we laugh? Is timing at all important?  Let's explore this topic that is no joke. 

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Ep.5 In the last episode, host Lee Mueller tackled the question, "if I always wanted to be a playwright?"  In this episode,  he talks about HOW he became one.  Hint: Lee did not decide one day that it would be his calling. It all just happened.  He went from acting on stage in High School, College, and on the stage in an improvisational comedy sketch group to eventually becoming a playwright. How it all prepared him to write his first play.  Eventually creating Play-dead.com 

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Ep.4  Lee Mueller may not have started out wanting to write plays, but the roads he traveled carried him there.  Perhaps growing up as an only child fueled his imagination. And when he became an adult, he did not put away childish things.  Lee acted in plays and eventually went on to write plays, eventually creating Play-Dead.com - a website that features all of his Comedy Murder Mystery scripts.  

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Ep. 3  Audio is taken from a video - not the best) How distinct elements of ideas all blended together to fill out the idea. Lee Mueller had an idea for a play called "Dead Air".  This is the evolution of the script he wrote many years ago.  It should be noted that writers come up with ideas in all sorts of ways.  This is only an example of how this idea fermented in his mind. 

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Ep. 2  Sometimes a great new idea may just be an old one we don't recognize.   How many creative people reuse what has been done before? Quite a few.  Once you become familiar with the clichés in books, movies, TV, etc..  -you begin to see the pattern and realize there are only so many stories and so many ways to tell them.  The challenge is to rework them into something which appears original.  And that leads to becoming a creative thinker and person. Join your host Lee Mueller as he explores the world of recycled ideas. 

Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai 

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Ep.1  When you create,  you need to know how to do it. And you need an idea.  When you start out as a novice writer, you may have a lot of questions and read a lot of "How To" books.  You want to know if you are doing it right.  This episode with your host Lee Mueller,  explores the methods, the early stages of the creative process, and some questions writers may wonder—such as what is the best time of day to write? What should you use? Pencil? Computer? And where do you get your ideas? A collection of Lee's plays can be found on Amazon

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