{"id":3217,"date":"2011-07-18T08:46:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T07:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2021-02-09T19:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:07:05","slug":"john-sullivan-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/john-sullivan-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"John Sullivan Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Writing to Succeed<\/strong><\/p>\n

I thought I would pen my thoughts for this site on just how much John Sullivan\u2019s writing on Only Fools and Horses means to me. I am a writer myself I currently have a movie been looked at around Hollywood, and im developing other projects.<\/p>\n

I would not have learned how to write if it was not for John Sullivan. I decided when I turned nineteen I wanted to be a film and television writer which was a bold decision for someone that had never written a thing!. There are two comedy programmes that have shaped my life there is Only Fools and Horses and Fawlty Towers, which I regard as the best situation comedies that have ever been made.<\/p>\n

Only Fools and Horses though is the stand out single handedly best written and produced programme of all time. I grew up on an extremely rough council estate in the North at one point there was me my Mum and my Grandmother all in the same house and John Sullivan nailed it as to just what life was like in these circumstances. I watched the show since I was nine years old and been able to relate to the Trotters misadventures has put a smile on my face and got me through so many difficult and bad times.<\/p>\n

I have always turned to the show whenever I have needed cheering up, and it stands the test of time it is funny no matter how many times you watch it. In my opinion the key to its success is because the writing is so good, and the performances of the actors is quite simply outstanding. For me I forget that I am actually watching a comedy programme because it feels so real its almost like your dropping in on old friends.<\/p>\n

I started development on my first script in 1998 and it was quite simply terrible, the concept was good but my writing and layout looking back was appalling, at the time I thought it was great that was until I had a very terrible letter from the head of comedy at Yorkshire Television telling me I should pursue other avenues of work!!. I didn\u2019t know what to do so I realised I had to teach myself how to write better.<\/p>\n

One day I headed to the book store and there was my bible that was going to teach me how to write, a book containing scripts for Only Fools and Horses written by John Sullivan in their proper industry layout. I studied the book hard and realised how wrong I had been in everything that I had put down and so I studied how John Sullivan put his masterpieces down and tried to emulate that style in my own work and I started to feel confident again.<\/p>

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