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Jan 1Liked by Caroline Clifford

Hello Caroline,

I have an huge issue with this. When i am writing i am always judging.

I wrote one personal experience that i had with a fart on a plane. (It was made by other folk. I am well educated and i don´t have, at the moment, intestine issues)

Bellow the text. (Defintatly needs to be re-checked and advice.

Some decisions have lack of logic.

I travelled to Frankfurt, on a plane, close to the window. The space is tight. The sun was intense. The heat hit the wing, and made it even hotter. For that reason i closed the window.

From nowhere, in the silence, a fart smell was around my nose.

This one was bad. It was a silent one. In churchs, there is a sign advising "Please make silence". Please don´t do it. It will stink. If you will do it put the ass in holy water. That way the water will beat the smell, of the silence fart.

But in my case, the fart was on a plane. What can i do? I can´t put the nose out of the plane,. I can´t move to avoid the smell, i have low space to move. So i opened the window, so the sun heat could enter. It improved the situation? No, but i felt good because i made a decision.

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Dec 4, 2023Liked by Caroline Clifford

Editing and hating my current set for the German 101 class right this very moment when the notification for this article caught my attention. What a coincidence. Thanks.

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Hello, It's very normal to judge while your writing - you can't stop it. You just need to keep going and if the static becomes too loud then just go and do something else for a while. Writing a good joke is about focusing, it's about deciding what the funny part of the joke is, it's the same in improv. With your plane fart joke - the funny part isn't the fart but that you thought opening the blind(not window) would be effective - it's about, as you said, our brains coming up with stupid solutions in the moment. Now we know what the funny part of the joke is, can we think of more examples like that? More stupid solutions to a fart? (bully it? suck it in to your butt?) More stupid airplane solutions to other grievances. (loud talkers, crying babies, hijackers even) I hope I have helped! Sorry I took so long I'm usually more on it.

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