Humor Your Readers Can Visualize: How to Make Writing Funnier

ONDEMAND WEBINAR DESCRIPTION: The most potent humor is creative, unexpected, and visual. Although writers are restricted to using words to be funny, a cartoonist and psychologist explain how concepts from their respective disciplines can help writers create more effective, engaging humor. Some of the principles discussed in this OnDemand webinar include relatability, exaggeration, simplification, and aggressive editing. Cartoons and writing examples will illustrate how to problem solve and make scenes funnier and come alive. Adding illustration and psychological principles to a writer’s arsenal will produce funny material that resonates with readers and triggers their imaginations. INSTRUCTOR BIOS: Bob Eckstein is a NY Times bestseller, New Yorker cartoonist, and NYU adjunct professor. He’s been selected Humorist of the Month by the Erma Bombeck Workshop, nominated twice Gag Cartoonist of the Year by National Cartoonist Society. He’s written for The NY Times, The New Yorker, SPY magazi