How to Write Funnier

Your Serious Step-by-Step Blueprint for Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing: How to Write Funny, Book 2

By: Scott Dikkers

Narrated by: Scott Dikkers

Learn how to write a funny story.

Can you learn how to write comedy? Absolutely - anyone can. Scott Dikkers will tell you how. He's co-founder and longest-serving editor-in-chief of The Onion, the world's most popular humor publication, and founder of The Onion Training Center at the Second City in Chicago. He's also a number one best-selling humor author and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. In How to Write Funnier, he tells you everything you need to know to start writing funny stories, how to write funny scenes, and how to write funny sketches.

But that's just the beginning. How do you get a job in comedy? How do you write for The Onion? How do you write for the New Yorker? How do you get published in McSweeney's? How do you write for money? How do you become a career comedy writer?

It's all in How to Write Funnier.

Writers Scott has mentored, trained, or hired for their very first comedy-writing job have gone on to win several Emmy Awards, written movies nominated for an Academy Award, and become best-selling authors themselves. How to Write Funnier gives you the step-by-step process professionals use to create hilarious comedy articles, prose pieces, and stories that jump off the page, grab readers by the sphincter, and make them LOL.

Inside:

• The 13 most common mistakes in humor writing
• The 11 different ways to structure a humor piece
• How to get ideas for writing a great story
• Eight steps for how to get feedback on your writing that will truly make it funnier

©2019 Scott Dikkers (P)2020 Scott Dikkers

Why Bicker with Dikkers? The Man Knows Funny

This book is very helpful. I enjoyed it even more than How to be Funny, but I will warn you that he walks you through some drafts and revisions that get tedious after a while. Stick with it, as it is necessary and informative. Terrific resource! can't wait to dive in to book 3.

Really helpful and informative

Really helpful and informative. Just a lot of practical info with examples. His voice is also great to listen to.

Great info on collaborative humor writing/revision

I enjoyed hearing about the process, and it was a great expansion of ideas from the first book. The only problem hung I didn’t particularly enjoy was walking through numerous drafts of very similar work after revisions, but I think they served a good purpose.