“Keep writing and writing and writing. Don’t fall in love with your stuff. And keep working on it. Keep rewriting. Rewriting is everything,”
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After over forty years of writing and producing all types of marketing communications materials–and at the same time working as a belly-to-belly sales rep–I had an epiphany: I would rather make people laugh than make them buy stuff.
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Don’t bother sending a pitch or cover letter. If your material is funny, you don’t have to explain it.
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I just got my copy of this gem a few days ago. It contains conversations with 21 top humor writers on their craft. It’s bursting with good advice and behind the scenes info about the writers, the shows, movies and comedians they worked with in their careers. The book includes a bonus of six special [...]
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For print humor, you can use some of the same techniques used to write humor for TV, radio, stage, or stand-up acts. Sketches are usually short and built on characters and a situation or premise, rather than story. But that doesn’t mean you can’t also have a story. Everything is a story of some kind. [...]
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