humour
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Talking of funny, there’s still time to enter my weekly writing challenge (ends Thursday – see earlier post). Perhaps you could send me a funny story or poem. Anyway, here’s my award for ‘Funny Of The Week’: Know of any services which operate this way?
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After my piece on adding humour to your writing last week, I thought I’d build on it this week and help you to start your week off with a smile: E-Publishing and the Re-birth of Malapropism, Misspellings, Mistakes and Mayhem They say anyone can be published these days thanks to e-publishing, blogging, social networking and…
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The Numbers Game A lot of publications and competitions now accept work by e-mail but some still prefer work to be submitted by post or accept both. If you’re sending an article, short story or novel by post, always number your pages. In busy offices with lots of different scripts, it’s easy for pages to…
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I love this one:
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Humorous Writing In the current economic climate there isn’t much to cheer us, so a humorous article or funny story comes as a welcome break. But writing humour isn’t as easy as you might think. Here’s a helping hand to make sure you leave your readers smiling: Ideas for humorous letters, fillers, articles and stories…
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“What do you do for a living?” “I’m a Mayhem Evaluation Officer.” The mind boggles!
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Methinks they need to reword this:
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This one caught my eye and made me laugh:
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When you’re a writer, it’s not easy to switch off. Even when I was on holiday, I found myself drawn to various characters – their mannerisms, actions, expressions, words, dialects, smells(!) etc. It’s these aspects of people’s characters which, if put into a short story or novel, bring them to life and make them real…
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On every holiday I’ve been on, home or abroad, I’ve come across an amusing sign or two. Egypt was no exception so I thought I’d base my new ‘Funny of the week’ series on amusing signs. Here’s one from a pastor with a sense of humour:
