
Matthew Dicks: Crafting a Story ("News of Divorce")
Speak Up Storytelling
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How to Make Your Story Humorous
All stories I said I never commit a word to the page that's not entirely true because I do make lists. I'm also going to look for ways that I can contrast a school day versus the freedom of home and by being ultra specific that is often very funny so finding things that I can be ultra specific about that are sort of onerous at school and making them ultra specific in terms of being exceedingly free and fantastic at home that will also create some humorSo there's a goal in the story I set goals all the time when I'm preparing stories when I'm working on them so the goal here the goal in this particular section that we've just gone through is to build some
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