Over the past few years, I’ve written a bunch of writing craft pieces to help humor writers. I’ve gotten some nice feedback on those and all manner of replies in my inbox ranging from kind to strange.
At the beginning of this year, I thought it was high time to create a single resource for humor writers that’s 1,000 times more powerful than the previous blog posts. So that’s what I did.
I wrote an eBook for humor writers and aspiring humor writers. If you have any interest in humor writing, I think you’ll love it. It’s called The Ultimate Guide to Writing a Humor Piece.
If you’ve ever wanted a start-to-finish guide to writing a killer humor piece — a guide that goes into extreme depth and spares no details — this book is for you.
I also wrote the book for writers who are having trouble breaking into humor publications or just trouble publishing consistently.
And, I wrote it for humor writers who feel stuck. If your humor writing feels stalled out in any way, this book is also for you.
The book is 150 pages long, and it has everything I know about crafting and publishing great humor pieces, soup-to-nuts. Here’s what’s in the book…
Section 1 covers the craft of humor (the nuts and bolts) in extreme depth, including discussions of the elusive concept of voice and character voice, as well as why a lot of humor feels stale and doesn’t escalate properly. (Among many, many other fundamental topics.)
Section 2 is all about making your work funnier through editing and self-editing, and I show you how to build an unstoppable editing and feedback system that will serve you long-term and lead to many more professional-level, published pieces.
Section 3 is about publishing humor. If you want to know how to break through the psychic walls of stone-faced editors and get your work accepted, I have a lot to say about it. I also discuss self-publishing your humor versus publishing in publication and give tips on how to choose your publishing strategy.
Section 4 is about the humor writing life: How to think long-term and grow long-term as a humorist, and what to do when you get stuck in a rut.
The book is everything I wish I had known when I started out years ago. And it has freakin’ penguins in it.
That’s it. Have a nice day.
