How to Write Funny: Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint For Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing

by Scott Dikkers

  Continuing to write on a regular basis, adjusting your approach, getting reader feedback and then incorporating that newfound wisdom into your next piece of writing—in conjunction with all the tools we covered in this book—is the blueprint for becoming a great, funny writer.

  CHAPTER 8 ACTION STEP:

  Keep writing, and practice these techniques until you’re Tina Fey.

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  This book covers the elemental process of conceiving and writing a joke, the fundamental skill you need to be a successful comedy writer. It’s important to start at this level. Even for the accomplished professional, focusing on the fundamentals is the key to mastery. Once you can churn out good jokes competently and consistently, you’re ready to move onto writing comedy articles and stories. The art and craft of writing short humor pieces is the subject of the second book in this series, How to Write Funnier.

  For more, enroll in the four-level writing program (“Writing with The Onion”) that I developed at The Second City Training Center in Chicago. This book encompasses what we learn in level one, “Basic Writing with The Onion.” For class schedules, go to www.secondcity.com/training