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How to Write Funny: Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint For Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing

Scott Dikkers
4.14/5 (472 ratings)
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The Definitive Humor-Writing Handbook From A Top Comedy Pro
This easy-to-follow guide, written by one of the world's most successful humor writers, lays out a clear system for creating funny ideas that get big, milk-coming-out-of-your-nose laughs, reliably and repeatably. You'll learn...

• The 3 sure-fire ways to generate material
• The 11 different kinds of jokes and how to tell them
• The secret to permanently overcoming writer's block
• And many more tips, tricks, and techniques

Table of Contents
1 Introduction
Use the techniques in this book to reliably create top-notch humor writing (page 9)

2 Your Brain’s Comedy Engine
Access both hemispheres of your brain to eliminate writer’s block and tap an endless reserve of comedy ideas (page 19)

3 The Humor Writer’s Biggest Problem
Overcome this one devastating obstacle to reach the widest possible audience (page 27)

4 How To Get Laughs
Understand the different kinds of laughs, and how to generate the best one (page 37)

6 Subtext: The Secret Ingredient
Infuse your humor with this vital component to create writing that makes people laugh (page 51)

6 The 11 Funny Filters
Create any joke using the 11 fundamental building blocks of humor (page 61)

Funny Filter 1: Irony (page 62)
Funny Filter 2: Character (page 64)
Funny Filter 3: Shock (page 70)
Funny Filter 4: Hyperbole (page 74)
Funny Filter 5: Wordplay (page 77)
Funny Filter 6: Reference (page 81)
Funny Filter 7: Madcap (page 85)
Funny Filter 8: Parody (page 90)
Funny Filter 9: Analogy 9(page 4)
Funny Filter 10: Misplaced Focus (page 96)
Funny Filter 11: Metahumor (page 99)

7 Using The Funny Filters
Layer the building blocks to create increasingly hilarious jokes (page 105)

8 Process Overview
Master this simple system to become a prolific humor writer (page 127)
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
152 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B00K9PI7AQ

How to Write Funny: Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint For Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing

Scott Dikkers
4.14/5 (472 ratings)
Read Download
The Definitive Humor-Writing Handbook From A Top Comedy Pro
This easy-to-follow guide, written by one of the world's most successful humor writers, lays out a clear system for creating funny ideas that get big, milk-coming-out-of-your-nose laughs, reliably and repeatably. You'll learn...

• The 3 sure-fire ways to generate material
• The 11 different kinds of jokes and how to tell them
• The secret to permanently overcoming writer's block
• And many more tips, tricks, and techniques

Table of Contents
1 Introduction
Use the techniques in this book to reliably create top-notch humor writing (page 9)

2 Your Brain’s Comedy Engine
Access both hemispheres of your brain to eliminate writer’s block and tap an endless reserve of comedy ideas (page 19)

3 The Humor Writer’s Biggest Problem
Overcome this one devastating obstacle to reach the widest possible audience (page 27)

4 How To Get Laughs
Understand the different kinds of laughs, and how to generate the best one (page 37)

6 Subtext: The Secret Ingredient
Infuse your humor with this vital component to create writing that makes people laugh (page 51)

6 The 11 Funny Filters
Create any joke using the 11 fundamental building blocks of humor (page 61)

Funny Filter 1: Irony (page 62)
Funny Filter 2: Character (page 64)
Funny Filter 3: Shock (page 70)
Funny Filter 4: Hyperbole (page 74)
Funny Filter 5: Wordplay (page 77)
Funny Filter 6: Reference (page 81)
Funny Filter 7: Madcap (page 85)
Funny Filter 8: Parody (page 90)
Funny Filter 9: Analogy 9(page 4)
Funny Filter 10: Misplaced Focus (page 96)
Funny Filter 11: Metahumor (page 99)

7 Using The Funny Filters
Layer the building blocks to create increasingly hilarious jokes (page 105)

8 Process Overview
Master this simple system to become a prolific humor writer (page 127)
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
152 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B00K9PI7AQ

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