The Joke's On You! The Scoop On Humor, Middle Grade through YA 2017
October 12 - 15, 2017
Learn to manipulate humor in your writing, grow your characters, enliven your setting, and add momentum and energy to your story.
In this hands-on workshop designed for intermediate-level writers of middle grade through young adult, participants will use a range of classic and contemporary published work as well as workshop manuscripts to study the many ways in which humor operates in the form of the novel. Learn to manipulate humor in your writing to grow your characters, enliven your setting, and add momentum and energy to your story. You’ll be required to send in your opening 10 novel pages as well as 5 pages each from the middle and the (projected) ending of your work.