Tag: Writing
Tip #1 – Making Stone Soup
There will be days when you just don’t feel a bit funny. There will be long hours when you just don’t feel like writing anything at all. Tough. That’s the one thing I claim to have learned as a daily news reporter. […]
#Humor – My Domain Name Addiction
Some people are addicted to booze, others to sex, and then there are those who have risked it all with their bookie on fantasy football or their March-madness pool. I only wish I had one of those addictions. I’m hooked on something not covered […]
Humor Handbook Project
Welcome to the Humor Handbook Project. This project has been a long-time in the making, and will be sharing tips, techniques, and a tad bit of history and theory in a series of handbooks on comedy-writing and performing in its various forms. […]
ThinkingFunny23 #humor & #comedy #writing conference
Learn about humor-writing from the pros at ThinkingFunny23. This online conference offers sessions that range from standup comedy to songwriting and tips on how to create and sustain a humor column and even publish your own series of book for fun and […]
NaNoWriMo 2020 – Here We Go Again
Photo by JPPI on morgueFile.com, edited by Robb. We’ll, I’m a week late at starting, but I’m taking on NaNoWriMo again this year. Goal is to crank out a hot mess of 50,000 words. Working title of the book is “Family Secrets.” […]
Blasts From The Past
Coming soon to this blog, short-form humor excerpts from my previously published work. Some of this will be freely offered, other bits will be available for a small fee. These are family-friendly stories, and many of them have nuggets of truth in […]
What the #SFWC19 Presenters Said – A Word Frequency Analysis
Image copyright, 2019, Robb Lightfoot – contact robb@robblightfoot.com I’m plugging away with my thesis analysis, and here’s a word-frequency graph drawn from the publicly-available handouts provided by the #SFWC19 presenters. These sort of visual analysis often form the starting point of successive, […]
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