Once upon a time, I taught cartooning and storybook illustration to elementary school children. At our first class meeting, I came prepared with a variety of fruits, vegetables, and inanimate objects like a stapler, a bottle, and a cup. I lined these objects up on a raised box and invited the children to tell me…
Tag: a sense of humor
Phobia noun pho∙bia \ foe-bee-a
Actually, I’m okay with bees but those wasps, yellow jackets, mud daubers—whatever they’re called—freak me out. Speaking of fears, take Steven King—but don’t keep him—that guy writes horrors few humans can possibly survive, let alone think of: Carrie, The Secret Window, The Shining… Now that I think about it, I have an irrational fear of…
Give Your Characters a Sense of #Humor … by Rainey Hall
Just like a well-delivered one-liner, writers must have great timing and dynamics when their characters produce a sentence—or word—meant to be funny. timing noun the ability to select the precise moment for doing something for optimum effect Don’t forget—to show your character’s sense of humor—readers need to know the character’s usual personality, and/or the situation,…