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Ask HN: Resources for Comedic Book Writing

Hi all. I’m hoping to write a book in the next few months and would love humour to be a large part of the tone. I’ve taken improv classes before and have a great sense of humour, but I don’t know how to _write_ comedy. Does anybody have any resources they’d recommend? Books, online courses, etc. Thanks!

sargstuff 3y ago
Full Sail Univeristy library web page 'Creative Writing Resources: Comic Book & Graphic Novel Writing' [0] reddit 'Graphic Novel Writing Resources' request. [1] --- [0] : https://fullsail.libguides.com/CW_resources/graphic_novels_writing https://fullsail.libguides.com/CW_resources/graphic_novels_w... [1] : 1a) https://www.reddit.com/r/ComicWriting/comments/tt9gye/graphic_novel_writing_resources/ 1b) https://www.reddit.com/r/ComicWriting/comments/100y2jm/how_do_i_start_writing_comics/
- tristanMatthias 3y ago
  Interesting! Is this comedic writing as well? Or just comic books?
  - turtleyacht 3y ago
    Thank-you for the links, sargstuff. Nearby link mentions comedic writing: https://fullsail.libguides.com/CW_resources/comedy https://fullsail.libguides.com/CW_resources/comedy
  - sargstuff 3y ago
    Depends on material/approach. Personal favorite was extremely talented undergraduate presentation writer -- mixed subject matter with presentation/exercises in way that when grasped subject matter, got technical subject matter version of comic relief. 'picture worth 1000 words' intro or conclusion bit easier to do. Unrelated to aforementioned academic presentation writer examples: OS paging game : https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/paging.game.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/paging.game.html Mechanical engineer's object allocator : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_qTVhKyY68 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_qTVhKyY68 Convert mechanical engineer's object allocator into 'cartoon' (https://github.com/experience-ml/cartoonize https://github.com/experience-ml/cartoonize ) Use chatgpt write script showing Zark King working the mechanical engineer's object allocator. Perhaps adding 'blue' pages for empty node pools within a given page. Add some UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 to some pages, to &(* character) /process references. Perhaps hashtag q.e.d. to pid. Pick appropriate allocated pages to use in serialized q.e.d. / pid presentation.

sargstuff 3y ago

Full Sail Univeristy library web page 'Creative Writing Resources: Comic Book & Graphic Novel Writing' [0] reddit 'Graphic Novel Writing Resources' request. [1] --- [0] : https://fullsail.libguides.com/CW_resources/graphic_novels_writing https://fullsail.libguides.com/CW_resources/graphic_novels_w... [1] : 1a) https://www.reddit.com/r/ComicWriting/comments/tt9gye/graphic_novel_writing_resources/ 1b) https://www.reddit.com/r/ComicWriting/comments/100y2jm/how_do_i_start_writing_comics/

tristanMatthias 3y ago
Interesting! Is this comedic writing as well? Or just comic books?
- turtleyacht 3y ago
  Thank-you for the links, sargstuff. Nearby link mentions comedic writing: https://fullsail.libguides.com/CW_resources/comedy https://fullsail.libguides.com/CW_resources/comedy
- sargstuff 3y ago
  Depends on material/approach. Personal favorite was extremely talented undergraduate presentation writer -- mixed subject matter with presentation/exercises in way that when grasped subject matter, got technical subject matter version of comic relief. 'picture worth 1000 words' intro or conclusion bit easier to do. Unrelated to aforementioned academic presentation writer examples: OS paging game : https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/paging.game.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/paging.game.html Mechanical engineer's object allocator : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_qTVhKyY68 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_qTVhKyY68 Convert mechanical engineer's object allocator into 'cartoon' (https://github.com/experience-ml/cartoonize https://github.com/experience-ml/cartoonize ) Use chatgpt write script showing Zark King working the mechanical engineer's object allocator. Perhaps adding 'blue' pages for empty node pools within a given page. Add some UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 to some pages, to &(* character) /process references. Perhaps hashtag q.e.d. to pid. Pick appropriate allocated pages to use in serialized q.e.d. / pid presentation.