The 25 Stages of Writing a Satire Article

Brainstorm

Research

Is there anything interesting at UCL?

Jezzzzaaaa

Contemplation of daily routine

How do I make this objectively funny?

Look around my workspace

Search for something to parody

Find a vague concept

Build a metaliterary title

Realise that the concept already exists because it was the last thing you’ve just read

Conclude that nothing is original

Internal post-modernist debate

Imagined interview with James Corden

The audience is duly impressed

Misery

A trip to the kitchen

Check social media (“inspiration”)

Commemoration of Vine

Notice it’s 2AM

Inspiration strikes

My first draft is the final draft

Last read-through

Self-pity

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