In both improv and writing, I think a lot of us have an impulse to leave things "open" and "general" if we possibly can. It's common to see beginning improvisers starting a scene with something like:A: "How's it going?"B: "Yeah, I'm alright, you?"A: "Yeah, everything's certainly fine with me."B: "Do...
Writers are famously well-adjusted social beings. I’m kidding: the kind of person who enjoys sitting alone with a laptop for hours on end, while trying to thoughtfully interpret the human condition, is obviously quite a strange creature. Meanwhile, improvisers have a lot of experience conveying and interpreting human interactions from...
It’s an old improv cliche: you’re talking in a little circle about some improv-concept or other and then someone says “it’s just like life” and then everyone cries a little bit inside, and possibly also outside, and there’s a long silence and then you change topics completely. But – wait...