Whenever you try to come up with something original, you will find that some days the stuff flows, and some days it doesn’t. When Graham Chapman and I started writing together we would get terribly frustrated and despairing when we hit a fallow period—sometimes a whole morning or even a day when we produced nothing really good. But then we noticed that, despite this, we had a consistent average: every week we wrote about fifteen to eighteen minutes of good stuff. All we had to do was to sit there, whether it flowed or it didn’t, and by Friday evening we would have enough. We came to understand
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