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What Are You Laughing At?
$19.95
There are writing exercises to help bring out the humorist in you, and add pizzazz to your creative endeavors. You’ll learn to write for television, film, and stage, as well as the 11 modes of comedic dialogue, 13 bad things screenwriters commonly do, and the “Cream of Wheat Theory” of exposition.
Writing the Comedy Film
$14.95
This book takes you into the world of comedy and helps you discover what makes us laugh, and how can you craft better comedy. With easy-to-use guidelines, learn the successful mechanics and characteristics of various comic story forms.
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Humor Writing I - The Basics
Gotham Writers' Workshop
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Description
If you chuckle at the essays of Erma Bombeck and the life stories of David Sedaris, if you chortle at the exploits of such fictional characters as Tom Jones and Bridget Jones—you know the pleasure of literary laughter. Humor writing requires all the hallmarks of good writing plus that X factor: being funny.
These courses cover the spectrum of prose humor writing, exploring fiction and such nonfiction forms as memoir, essay, opinion pieces, and parody. You will learn basic principles of humor, how to view the world with a humorist’s eye, and how to maximize the comedic potential in such craft elements as character, structure, dialogue, and voice. You will also learn how and where to market your work.
Whether you seek to write wit, comedy, satire, or farce, you will learn how to turn sentences into smiles.
Highlights- 10 Week Online Course
- Write one or two short humor works or begin work on a book
- Lectures on principles of humor and how to utilize these in the various types of writing craft
- Writing exercises
- Present work for critique
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