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Writing Tips Season 3 Episode 6: Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (But Sometimes It Is)

Writing Tips Season 3 Episode 6: Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (But Sometimes It Is)

On finding the funny moments in your memoir.

Nikesh Shukla
Feb 15, 2021
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Welcome to my free creative writing newsletter. This season we’re talking about memoir, and sometimes writing a memoir can be heavy, and bring up a lot of things from the past. And we forget that we can find the funny in our lives too. Tragedy plus time equals comedy! I’m going to talk through ways to mine jokes out of the stories we’re writing…

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