by admin | Apr 3, 2023 | Copywriting, Encouragement, General, Humor, Mechanics/ Writing Craft
© © 2023 Amy Hughes Hinerman2023 Amy Hughes Hinerman Copywriting is always changing with our culture. Nowadays, people are inundated with media and have the attention spans of gnats. To snag readers from the start, many are using a current approach—one that is looser...
by admin | Apr 2, 2019 | General, Humor, Mechanics/ Writing Craft
© 2019 Connie Kuykendall So, you want to write comedy, but you’re a teensy bit of a sour, dour, stick-in-the-mud? Take heart, curmudgeon! You don’t have to be as funny as Melissa McCarthy to write comedy. Your grumpy side may actually give you an edge.“The secret...
by admin | Mar 1, 2017 | Encouragement, General, Humor, Mechanics/ Writing Craft
© 2017 James N. Watkins Several major universities have conducted serious studies of humor. (A serious study of humor sounds like an oxymoron: jumbo shrimp, government intelligence and legally drunk!) However, these studies have shown that silly writing can produce...
by admin | Jun 8, 2016 | Encouragement, General, Humor
© 2016 Jeanie Jacobson Many writers experience a middle-of-the-night phenomenon. Sleep deprivation kicks in and transports them to the land of GOZ, the Giggly Overtired Zone. This becomes especially prevalent during National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo. That’s the...
by admin | Sep 2, 2013 | Fiction, General, Humor, Mechanics/ Writing Craft
© 2013 Sandra Balzo When I sat down to write my first Maggy Thorsen coffee mystery, Uncommon Grounds, I didn’t intend it to be humorous. Why I didn’t realize that having someone electrocuted by a frothing wand and leaving her body to be found “face...
by admin | Jul 17, 2012 | Editing, General, Humor, Mechanics/ Writing Craft
© 2012 JoAnn Reno Wray I haven’t read articles in the newspaper, seen Internet stories, nor heard it reported by TV newscasters, but I’m convinced a large herd of wild apostrophes has escaped from the punctuation zoo and is multiplying with abandon. How do I know?...