The Amazing Benefits Of "Tag-Team" Co-Writing! (Part 3)

Part 3 of our conversation about working together. Didn't catch the first or second, click here for 1, here for 2.


(Seeing how Larry's mouth has been filled with the peanut butter and celery deliciousness, not to mention that each stick contains no less than 3 tablespoons full of the sticky peanutty rich filing - which David just forgot to mention - this has forced Larry to spend a great deal of time rearranging his tonsils in an effort to talk. So for a good 2 minutes, David gets a chance to wax poetic).

(David) Yup! I agree. (Understand that David had been sitting there waiting for a breath so he could go to the restroom. Talk of the Titanic and all of that water really wasn't helping).

(David now makes his way back to the living room drying his hands with several paper towels as Larry is finally able to open wide enough to not only stick his tougue out at David, but to also ask him a serious question).

(Larry) Any other comments that need to be discussed or addressed?

(David) Yeah, finally, as a famous actor told me in a totally made up, in my own imagination interview I conducted, we are all actors. No matter if it's our daily life, if we are on stage or screen, or even online, our best role is of ourselves. It keeps us real. Makes us real. And is the best we can possibly do.

(Larry) Sounds like a pretty smart guy. It's a significant truth that goes all the back to William Shakespeare, and probably well beyond that, though at the moment, off the top of my head, the Shakespeare line about us all being actors on the stage is the earliest historical reference to the concept that comes to mind from history.

If you have to play a role, why not choose to play the one role that no one on Earth can ever possibly even come close to playing as well as you, the role of yourself. If you are ever going to stand out and be noticed, appreciated and congratulated for effectively playing a character in life, the one you have the best chance of pulling off to perfection is "Yourself!"

Any other wise words from your actor friend?

(David) Well, before he left, I asked him about this partnership so many may seem to be worried about. He said there are 3 kinds of folks to worry about when you are working with them. First are animals. Second are children. And third, are experienced ghost writers.

So what can I say. I love animals.

(Larry) Ah, sounds like you were interviewing the ghost of W.C. Fields. Yeah, he and I have had our differences over the years, it only makes sense that he would take this opportunity to get another dig in at me over my career as a ghost writer.

Even after all these years, that's one very verbose ghost who doesn't like his lines written for him or being told what to say. ;-)

Personally, I'm a little surprised that he didn't offer up a warning about the corporate copywriter instead of the ghost-writer. After the last several years spending so much of my time writing copy and designing "Brands" for big companies, I, much like Mr. W.C. Fields, feel as if I have been spending "way too much time" working side by side with a bunch of "children" and "animals!" (LOL)