Muse & the Marketplace 2019

Do you enjoy reading humorous writing and want to make your own work funnier? We'll break down the building blocks of humor and learn to incorporate humor into our writing without making it too "jokey." We'll also study examples from masters in fiction and nonfiction, identifying their techniques and exploring what makes them succeed. And we'll talk about the particulars of publishing humor writing specifically.

Feel free to come with an excerpt of your writing (500 words or less) that you'd like to improve. We'll do a short in-class exercise and pick a few to workshop as a group.