
Matthew Dicks: Crafting a Story ("News of Divorce")
Speak Up Storytelling
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How to Build Humor in Your Story
"I'm going to try to build some humor into that list I'm going to choose the things that are just naturally funny because we are unsupervised children in a crazy environment doing things that kids shouldn't do," says author. "The funnier I can make the opening of my story the better the living room scene is going to play for audiences and so the way I try to build humor at least in this section of the story is by doing two things creating a list Creating a list of the funniest things we do after school and then I'mgoing to punch them up now that's just natural humor."
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