Come for the Mysteries. Stay for the Characters.
If it’s appropriate to you story, let humor do the heavy lifting when it comes to character development. Here are four ways humor helps characters. Humor makes characters likable. Giving a character a healthy sense of humor automatically makes her more likable to most readers. In real life, someone with good sense of humor is… Continue Reading →
FThe focus for September is humor. So my prompts will hopefully tickle your funny bone. What’s so funny about this photo? Here’s my idea: Seven-year-old: That’s the craft kit I asked Santa for. But how come it’s in our basement? Five-year-old: Santa must have come early. The teddy bear I wanted is behind all the tubs of… Continue Reading →
No matter what genre, if a few characters in a story display a sense of humor, that hooks me as readily as quirky characters or an intriguing plot. Click here for a previous post on the importance of humor. Inserting humor into a story, especially one with a serious premise, can be difficult. I’ve discovered… Continue Reading →
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Even in this digital age, when writers can access the world from their couch, we still experience a lot of the problems and pleasures that writers did in the past . Whenever I get down about the pursuit of publishing, I turn to P.G. Wodehouse’s… Continue Reading →
My prompt ties to my guest blogger this week, author Phillip Rivera. He writes hilarious stories about life as a dad in the suburbs. This photo inspired me to write a fun, domestic story, but it could also be a humorous superhero story, with this toddler possessing powers like Jack-Jack in The Incredibles movies. Who… Continue Reading →
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