The Serious Guide to Joke Writing: How To Say Something Funny About Anything pdfdrive com

1. Never Throw Away or Type Over Your Previous
Versions of Gags
You can’t judge what’s good until you have distance.
2. Allow Space for Things To Fail
Your  brain  will  surprise  you  and  will  take  you  and  your  ideas  to  the  most
amazing  places  if  you  let  it.  Give  ideas  space  to  breathe.  If  some  jokes  end  up
dying horrible deaths it’s so that others can live.
3. When You Find a Joke Write Down The Exact
Wording Immediately
You may never find it again. Jokes can be like a mirage in the desert, a glimmer
of  truth,  like  an  elusive  love  that  ever  more  eludes  you  (yeah  right  –  but  ask
certain comedy writers and they’ll tell you it’s so).
Everything else about honing are just things that you can try that may or may not
work.

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