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- catalog abstract "Humorist Patrick McManus explains several facets of writing humor and provides twelve stories with commentary on each, as well as a list of humor writers he admires.".
- catalog contributor b11643493.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "Humorist Patrick McManus explains several facets of writing humor and provides twelve stories with commentary on each, as well as a list of humor writers he admires.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "My Life and Weird Times, or How I Became a Writer of Humor -- Newton's Questions -- What do you mean by "indirection" in a story? -- Why write for magazines? -- How do I know where to send my manuscript? -- How did your first book get published? -- Why do you give your characters and places such odd names? -- Can one learn to see funny? -- Got any deep philosophical thoughts about humor? -- What do you believe is the ultimate in a prose style? -- Is it scary to be a writer? -- Short humor. What is it and who cares? -- Do you have any rules for writing humor? -- How do book advances and rovalties work? -- Does a first-book author need an agent? -- How come your characters are always yakking away at each other? -- Can you define "humor?" -- Is pain funny? -- What about timing, anticipation and surprise in the writing of comedy? -- What's the highest high in writing? The lowest low? -- What is slapstick? -- Stories with Commentaries -- "A Good Deed Goes Wrong" -- "The Deer on a Bicycle" -- "The Big Trip" -- "Sequences" -- "As the Ear is Bent" -- "Wild Life in a Room with a View" -- "The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw" -- "Muldoon in Love" -- "Mean Tents" -- "The Two-Wheeled ATV" -- "Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing" -- "The Boy" -- Humorists I've Liked and Learned From.".
- catalog extent "188 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Deer on a bicycle.".
- catalog identifier "0910055629 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0910055637".
- catalog isFormatOf "Deer on a bicycle.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Spokane, Wash. : Eastern Washington University Press,".
- catalog relation "Deer on a bicycle.".
- catalog subject "808.7 21".
- catalog subject "PN6149.A88 M36 2000".
- catalog subject "Wit and humor Authorship.".
- catalog tableOfContents "My Life and Weird Times, or How I Became a Writer of Humor -- Newton's Questions -- What do you mean by "indirection" in a story? -- Why write for magazines? -- How do I know where to send my manuscript? -- How did your first book get published? -- Why do you give your characters and places such odd names? -- Can one learn to see funny? -- Got any deep philosophical thoughts about humor? -- What do you believe is the ultimate in a prose style? -- Is it scary to be a writer? -- Short humor. What is it and who cares? -- Do you have any rules for writing humor? -- How do book advances and rovalties work? -- Does a first-book author need an agent? -- How come your characters are always yakking away at each other? -- Can you define "humor?" -- Is pain funny? -- What about timing, anticipation and surprise in the writing of comedy? -- What's the highest high in writing? The lowest low? -- What is slapstick? -- Stories with Commentaries -- "A Good Deed Goes Wrong" -- "The Deer on a Bicycle" -- "The Big Trip" -- "Sequences" -- "As the Ear is Bent" -- "Wild Life in a Room with a View" -- "The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw" -- "Muldoon in Love" -- "Mean Tents" -- "The Two-Wheeled ATV" -- "Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing" -- "The Boy" -- Humorists I've Liked and Learned From.".
- catalog title "The deer on a bicycle : excursions into the writing of humor / by Patrick F. McManus.".
- catalog type "text".