How Can I Be Funny When Everything Is on Fire?

How Can I Be Funny When Everything Is on Fire?In this OnDemand webinar, writers will learn why comedy writing is important in stressful times, both to writers and to readers; the importance of distraction and diffusion and how comedy (whether memes, one liners, short stories, etc.) helps us do that; and how the negative emotions you're stuck in can be used to fuel deeper, more authentic comedy. Plus, writers will learn the value of falling back on the rules of writing humor to jumpstart your

In this OnDemand webinar, writers will learn why comedy writing is important in stressful times, both to writers and to readers; the importance of distraction and diffusion and how comedy (whether memes, one-liners, short stories, etc.) helps us do that; and how the negative emotions you're stuck in can be used to fuel deeper, more authentic comedy. Plus, writers will learn the value of falling back on the rules of writing humor to jumpstart your writing. 

Instructor: Leigh Anne Jasheway has been a comedy and non-fiction writer for 30 years.  She is the author of 27 books, including Don’t Get Mad, Get Funny; Not Guilty by Reason of Menopause; 101 Comedy Games for Children and Grown-Ups; Date Me, Date My Dog; and The Stressed-Out Woman’s Guide to Letting Go with Laughter. Her writing has also been included in over two dozen anthologies. She has also written and produced a musical, a short film, and two stage plays. Leigh Anne won the national Erma Bombeck Humor Writing Award for her true story on how her first mammogram caught on fire. She has taught comedy writing in workshops across the country, as well as at her local community college, for two decades. In her spare time, she takes obedience lessons from her dachshunds.