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

when you have all the time in the world
This can be harder because it’s so easy to wander off and not do the work when
you’re not under pressure. How can I, writing this book get you, the person who
wants to write jokes, to just sit down and do it?
First  of  all,  answer  this.  How  much  time  a  day  can  you  commit  to  writing?  I
think an hour a day is ideal (it doesn’t have to be in one block). Half an hour is
fine, and I once knew someone with three kids who wrote jokes for 15 minutes a
day while they were on the loo. The point is, they made a commitment to doing
it at that time and stuck to it.
I always wanted new jokes for my act and if I had no external deadlines I set my
own. I  would  decide I  will  write for  this  amount  of time,  and  then do  it.  I  will
come back and look at this later, and do it (and often be pleasantly surprised).
My favourite way of working is to do an hour’s hard thinking and then go for a
walk. Sometimes I consciously set my brain a task, tell it I’d like a good analogy
for something, and then a line or a snippet will jump into my head. Trust me, if
you really fire up your brain it won’t be able to stop working but you have to put
the effort in first.
If you are seeking creative ideas go out walking.
Go for a walk. Angels whisper to a man when
he goes for a walk.
Raymond Inmon
If  you’re  not  sure  how  wonderful  this  idea  is  then  imagine  if  garden  tools  did
background processing and, as long as you got hold of your spade and did some
serious digging for half an hour, it would carry on digging after you had gone off
shopping until it finished the job. Your brain is that powerful. Use it.

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Summary
• Background Processing is where you fire your brain up so much by
putting loads of thought into a subject that it carries on thinking about it
when you take a break or do something else.
• You can prompt this by keep going back to the subject, tickling your
brain’s neurons, then it will present you with jokes at the oddest of times!
• Always keep a notebook handy so you can catch these thought as they
come.

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