The Deer on a Bicycle: Excursions into the Writing of Humor
For his fourteenth book, Patrick McManus lets us inside the laughs. This guide, by one of the world's best-known and respected humorists, is an insightful and entertaining book for anyone who writes humor or who has ever wanted to.
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For his fourteenth book, Patrick McManus lets us inside the laughs. This guide, by one of the world's best-known and respected humorists, is an insightful and entertaining book for anyone who writes humor or who has ever wanted to.
Preface1My Life and Weird Times, or How I Became a Writer of Humor7Newton's QuestionsWhat do you mean by "indirection" in a story?19Why write for magazines?22How do I know where to send my manuscript?23How did your first book get published?27Why do you give your characters and places such odd names?29Can one learn to see funny?30Got any deep philosophical thoughts about humor?32What do you believe is the ultimate in a prose style?34Is it scary to be a writer?36Short humor. What is it and who cares?37Do you have any rules for writing humor?40How do book advanced and royalties work?49Does a first-book author need an agent?51How come your characters are always yakking away at each other?53Can you define "humor?"58Is pain funny?60What about timing, anticipation and surprise in the writing of comedy?63What's the highest high in writing? The lowest low?66What is slapstick?69Stories with Commentaries"A Good Deed Goes Wrong"73"The Deer on a Bicycle"84"The Big Trip"90"Sequences"103"As the Ear is Bent"110"Wild Life in a Room with a View"115"The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw"130"Muldoon in Love"140"Mean Tents"150"The Two-Wheeled ATV"162"Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing"169"The Boy"177Humorists I've Liked and Learned From185
