The New Comedy Writing Step by Step: Revised and Updated with Words of Instruction, Encouragement, and Inspiration from Legends of the Comedy Professi

ISBN-13: 9781884956669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 268 str.

Gene Perret; Joe Medeiros; Carol Burnett

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Three-time Emmy-award winner Gene Perret's Comedy Writing Step by Step has been the manual for humor writers for 24 years. With this, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the selling of one's work. From the basics of comedy writing as a craft... disciplining one's wit discovering what works visualization avoiding the obvious on through the nitty-gritty of the work... finding a topic constructing monologues, sketches, and scripts writing to your audience writing for sitcoms and finally, to comedy writing as a career... overcoming writer's block how to reach "unreachable" stars marketing one's material Perret covers all aspects of comedy writing in his uniquely knowledgeable and anecdotal fashion.