Adding Humor to Your Writing Toolbox

One-Day Workshops

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Saturday, May 3
10 - 12 AM EST

Jane Roper

$50.00

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Course Description

Adding Humor to Your Writing Toolbox

Saturday, May 3rd

10 – 12 AM EST

Online via Zoom

Humor has the power to entertain, surprise, enlighten, and even move readers. If you appreciate it in other people’s writing but aren’t quite sure how to bring it to your own, this class is for you! We’ll look at the building blocks of comedy and explore how writers use incongruity, hyperbole, dialogue, detail, and other elements of craft to bring humor to their work. Whether you’re looking to write an all-out comic essay or novel, or you simply want to bring moments of humor to otherwise “serious” work, you’ll walk away with concrete tips, techniques, and inspiration. (And you’ll have fun along the way.)

Zoom link sent week prior to class.

Jane Roper

Jane Roper is the author of the novels The Society of Shame—a finalist for the Thurber Prize in American Humor—and Eden Lake, as well as a memoir, Double Time: How I Survived–and Mostly Thrived–Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins. Her essays and humor have appeared in Salon, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Millions, Poets & Writers, LitHub, NPR, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Jane is originally from Fairfield, Connecticut and currently lives just north of Boston with her husband, rad teenage twins, and two cats, one of whom sucks.