In Short

My early posts on here were long and frequent. Then they became long and infrequent, partly because I kept getting half way through writing these long posts and deciding they were of no interest to anyone. I feel that if I change my style to short and frequent, I shall be able to post more words per day on average because nothing will be discarded. I might try for the odd long one if the subject grabs me, but I just thought I'd let you (the imaginary reader) know that the switch is intentional.
So.
I heard about a writing competition in my vicinity, with the admirably wide-ranging brief of submitting 1,000 words of poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction on any subject. Apparently the competition is dedicated to the memory of a local man who wanted to encourage "good readable writing"; I can't help noticing that this phrase should probably feature a comma, and a more proudly pedantic person than myself (if one exists) might well see fit to write his piece on this very subject, but I'm attempting to mellow as I get older and as such am going to assume that the comma was supposed to be there all along.
Anyway, the point was not the comma. That in itself sounds like the start of some silly discussion on punctuation marks. The point was not the comma, and the full stop is not a point. See? But no, I'm being very silly now. The point, by which I mean the reason for this post (besides boredom) was that I haven't yet decided what to write about. Oh, I'm going to enter; did I mention that or was it just assumed? The prize is more than a week's wages for me and hence is certainly worth going for. My current plan is to re-write my post about the alarm clock, perhaps removing the interview with Wossy and generally making it a bit more prize-worthy. Another plan is a short story, though with only a vague idea of how long 1,000 words is, I have no clue if this is sensible. This has stopped being a short post, hasn't it? You know what? Sod it, I'm going to carry on, and not just by going 'and now for something completely different', but by relating the next paragraph to this very sentence (although this sentence is, admittedly, only tenuously linked to the subject of the writing contest, if at all).
Something that has started to bother me slightly (and only slightly) is the number of TV shows that depict the making of a fictional show, such as Extras, Annually Retentive and Studio 60. The thing that annoys me is that they seem to be immune to criticism - if you're making a program in which any material you're unsure of can be jokingly analysed by the fictional characters, you're onto a winner because you always look clever. I rewrote that last sentence a few times before giving up, and this sentence here demonstrates why these shows only bother me slightly: I'm guilty of the same thing myself. I'm always commenting on my blog entries while I write them, partly out of insecurity about my writing skillz, so it's harsh of me to blame Gervais et al for the same thing, though it would be interesting to know if it's for the same reasons. Probably not, he seems like a cocky git. The other reason this issue doesn't bother me that much is that these shows all tend to be extremely good. In fact, scrap what I just said: shows within shows are no longer original but they are very funny and hence should be encouraged, as long as writers realise that they are not necessarily being clever. I talk a lot of bullshit.