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Required reading for humor writers

Stephen Leacock

Writing tips from John Berendt

Berendt said: "When I'm writing, I like to gain distance from my work so I can tell how it will strike a reader who is seeing it for the first time. I do this through a trick I devised while I was living in Savannah writing Midnight — I would call my apartment in New York, the answering machine would pick up, I'd read the page of text I'd just written, then I'd hang up. A minute later, I'd call my apartment again and listen to the "message." Hearing my own voice reading the page over the phone — my voice having traveled 1,800 miles (900 each way ) — gave me just the detached perspective I needed."

His advice to aspiring writers:
"Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it color, include quotes and dialogue, shape it like a story with a beginning, middle and end — as if it were a short story or an episode in a novel. It's great practice. Do this while figuring out what you want to write a book about. The book may even emerge from within this running diary."

From Garrison Keillor's Writers Almanac http://www.elabs7.com/functions/message_view.html?mid=1132854&mlid=499&siteid=20130&uid=4087b6131e

Words of wisdom from Timm Rawlins

"Remember when editors are involved writing is discouraging to all of us".  

Great stuff on Kindle publishing

A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: Interview with Karen McQuestion

A letter to Timm

I  think I tried to send this to you before; this is my book page at Shelfari (owned by Amazon).  A few jokes here, but not hilarious. (This  is sort of a contest to get mentioned in their newsletter, which probably has total circulation of 37 readers.)

 

Just click on the various categories to read the unconsidered marks of the Author, who is no grand fellow. He was caught recently having supper over the kitchen sink.  He somehow managed  to have a grand allergy sneeze which sent his shredded wheat flying through his nose.  A harrowing experience.

 

 

I spent much of this week at these two Amazon sites.  Was proud of myself that I figured out  how to use a feed to have blog sent to my Author page. 

 

Also trying to get the Inside the Book thing done at Amazon.  Even flirted with having book converted into a Kindle edtion so people could have the option of not reading Hidalgo on online, as well as current option of not reading it in print.

 

But it's been fun to fill in some of the blanks in the author page.  

 

Dan not the Man (as Musical was called, I think) but the Wreck that  avoided tall buildings and speeding bullets.

http://www.shelfari.com/books/14126210/Hidalgo

 

Hello.

Attention Amazon Shoppers: I'm adding this blog to my author page, as it needs something. All it has now is a bio and a vintage  photo of the author at  the age  of eight, which was  taken by my dad in 1953.  (I know this because Dad had thoughtfully printed the year on the back--a very rare instance of photo dating in my family.)

 I thought maybe my Commonplace Book might be of interest to Amazon readers, as it is basically clippings about books,writers, and writing.

Today I'm posting a link to E. B. White's Paris Review interview. Happy reading!

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4155/the-art-of-the-essay-no-1-e-b-white