How To Write Funny: Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint For Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing Contributor(s): Dikkers, Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 1499196121 ISBN-13: 9781499196122 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2014 Click for more in this series: How to Write Funny |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Professional Development - Humor | Form - Parodies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General |
Dewey: 808.7 |
Series: How to Write Funny |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.50 lbs) 148 pages |
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Publisher Description: The Definitive Joke Writing Handbook Learn comedy writing and how to write a joke with a simple comedy-writing and joke-writing formula you can use right now to write your own jokes. See why Amazon reviewers call How to Write Funny "one of the best books on comedy writing" and "one of the best books on humor writing." Author Scott Dikkers will show you how to write jokes. He's a master joke writer, founder of the world's most popular humor site TheOnion.com, #1 New York Times and #1 Amazon best-selling humor author, professional public speaker, and successful cartoonist. Scott created and leads The Onion" Training Center at the famed Second City in Chicago. His students have been hired for the top comedy writing jobs in TV and won dozens of Emmy Awards. He's consulted with top entertainment companies like NBC, Comedy Central, and Pixar. This easy-to-follow guide lays out a clear system and simple formula for how to write a joke that will get big, milk-coming-out-of-your-nose laughs, reliably and repeatably. You'll learn... - The 3 sure-fire ways to generate funny text - The 11 different "Funny Filters" and how to use them to write jokes - The secret to getting rid of writer's block-permanently - And many more humor writing tips, tricks, and techniques Use the techniques in this book to reliably create top-notch humor writing (page 11) 2 Your Brain's Comedy Engine 3 The Humor Writer's Biggest Problem 4 How To Get Laughs 6 The Secret Ingredient 6 The 11 Funny Filters Funny Filter 1: Irony (page 68) 7 Using The Funny FiltersLayer the building blocks to create increasingly hilarious jokes (page 113) 8 Process OverviewMaster this simple system to become a prolific humor writer (page 137) If you've wondered how you can start writing jokes, how to tell jokes to your friends, how to add humor to your writing, how to add jokes in a speech, or how to add humor to your presentation, this book spells out the simple joke writing formula professionals use.How to Write Funny is for you whether you want to find a comedy writing job or just want to learn how to tell a joke. Click "Look inside" to see more |
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