Apr 7, 20212 min readThe Adverb's Place in HumorYou’ve probably heard that adverbs are the spawn of Satan and a well meaning but old and faded plastic fern. They kinda are. But that...
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Nov 29, 20203 min readHow to Write Humor: Oddly SpecificThis is part of series of blogs based on humor techniques I studied during my brief tenure as Serious Humorologist at the University of...
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