By Sanjay Gupta
Outline
We all love reading a piece that’s well written and has great content. But we really prize an article or a book that can make us smile at everyday things or laugh at the vagaries of life. While a lot of people write pretty well and have a great facility with language, very few are able to inject humor into their writing.
Or so goes the conventional thinking.
While writing a humor piece or imparting a touch of humor to an otherwise drab article is no cakewalk, it’s not exactly impossible to raise the dough in a write-up and lead the reader on to a gleeful roller coaster. Only, you knead to know how to pat the cake!
Just like it is for any type of creative writing, no humor-writing guide – however comprehensive or didactic – can prove to be a silver bullet for the aspirant. But, having said that, there are ‘tricks of the trade’ that are employed to create humor in writing as well. Tricks or devices that can be learned, internalized and put into practice in your writing.
This guide aims to equip you with an arsenal of practical tools that you can use to bring in an element of humor into your writing – be it an out-and-out humor piece, a nonfiction book, a blog or even an office memo! How the guide aims to achieve this is by taking you through the writing of some of the best humor writers (such as Erma Bombeck, Jerome K Jerome, P.G. Wodehouse, Douglas Adams, Dave Barry and many more). By giving samples of their writing and analyzing the devices they have used in creating humor, the course will teach you how you, too, can use the same tools to make your readers roll with laughter or appreciate the wit your write-up contains.
About the Author
Sanjay Gupta is a 36-year-old freelance writer and editor who thinks he has a sense (and sometimes nuisance!) of humor. Like many celebrated authors whose biographical sketches given in their books always fascinated him for no apparent reason, he tried to divide his time between two cities, Delhi and Mumbai, but couldn’t (wrong city-combination, perhaps?). Because he wasn’t celebrated enough in India’s tinsel town, Sanjay returned to the city of djinns (Delhi), where he now lives with his wife and daughter. He doesn’t have any cats or dogs.
List of Chapters/Sections in This Guide
Chapter 1: Shared everyday experiences
Chapter 2: Lampooning, parodying or mocking
Chapter 3: Comic characterization
Chapter 4: Playing upon words: Pun-fun
Chapter 5: Using exaggeration
Chapter 6: The unexpected, unusual, or uncanny
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