A humor-writing workshop for students working on novels, screenplays, tomes, epic poems, encyclopedias and other long oeuvres. Writers of haiku collections are also welcome.
Among our topics: how can humor be used to deepen characters, advance plot, and define your voice? When is humor a distraction? When is it just plain annoying? In addition to discussing your projects, there will be in-class assignments. Class meets Mondays: July 8, 15, 22 and 29.
Students are chosen on the basis of a manuscript submission. Applications must be received by Monday, June 3 at 5 pm. View the submission guidelines and submit an application for this class.
Scholarship assistance is available. Applications must be returned to Scholarship Services at least two weeks before the first session.
This course will take place online.
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Patricia Marx is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is a former writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats, as well as the author of Starting from Happy, Let’s Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties and Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother’s Suggestions, which was illustrated by Roz Chast.
Advanced Humor-writing with Patricia Marx
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