Comedy Writing Secrets: The Best-Selling Guide to Writing Funny and Getting Paid for It - Softcover

Shatz, Mark; Helitzer, Mel

 
9781599639611: Comedy Writing Secrets: The Best-Selling Guide to Writing Funny and Getting Paid for It
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1599639610 ISBN 13: 9781599639611
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2016

Synopsis

Comedy Writing Secrets, 3rd edition will update the jokes and references used in the first and second editions, present a fresh design and cover, discuss and analyze humor approaches in online mediums, provide new humor writing exercises and practice activities, and better organize the content. Estimated new content: 25%, plus revisions to jokes, sidebars, etc. throughout the remaining content.

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About the Author

Mark A Shatz is a professor of psychology at Ohio University, Zainesville. In addition to teaching humor writing, he has extensive international experience as a teacher, speaker, and seminar leader on various topics such as motivation, death education, and interpersonal communication. Dr. Shatz has published numerous academic papers, incluiding how to use humor to enhance instruction and learning. He is the author of KISSing Golf: Keep It Simple (Stupid) Instructional Method, a humorous instructional book for beginning golfers.

Mark is currently developing an online course on humor writing for Writer’s Digest University.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1599639610
ISBN 13 
9781599639611
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
3
Number of pages
240