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

Document Outline

• How to Use This Book
• Chapter One (PRACTICAL) Redefinitions & Puns (Warm up to Word-Play)
• Chapter Two (THEORY): How To Use Your Brain’s Background Processing Function
• Chapter Three (PRACTICAL): Single Joke-Webs
• Chapter Four (THEORY): Jokes Exist In The Ether!
• Chapter Five (PRACTICAL): Double Joke-webs & The Hadron Joke Collider
• Chapter Seven (PRACTICAL): Writing Jokes From Newspapers
• Chapter Eight (THEORY): What’s Most Important: Time, Tenacity or Talent?
• Chapter Nine (PRACTICAL): Writing as Stream-of-Consciousness (How To Use Your Passion!)
• Chapter Ten (THEORY): Never Be Ashamed of Your Joke Writing Process
• Chapter Eleven (PRACTICAL): The Surrealist Inquisition (Coming at a Subject From Weird & Wonderful Angles)
• Chapter Twelve (THEORY): Always Leave Roomfor The Magic
• Chapter Fourteen (THEORY): Is There Such a Thing As Fear of Thinking?
• Chapter Fifteen: Case Study