New Comedy Writing Step by Step Words of Instruction,encouragement and Inspiration from the Legends of the Comedy Profession

Three-time Emmy-award winner Gene Perret's Comedy Writing Step by Step has been the manual for humor writers for 24 years. With this, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the selling of one's work. From the basics of comedy writing as a craft... disciplining one's wit discovering what works visualization avoiding the obvious on through the nitty-gritty of the work... finding a topic constructing monologues, sketches, and scripts writing to your audience writing for sitcoms and finally, to comedy writing as a career... overcoming writer's block how to reach "unreachable" stars marketing one's material Perret covers all aspects of comedy writing in his uniquely knowledgeable and anecdotal fashion.Perret, Gene is the author of 'New Comedy Writing Step by Step Words of Instruction,encouragement and Inspiration from the Legends of the Comedy Profession', published 2007 under ISBN 9781884956669 and ISBN 1884956661.