The Cab Driver of Oz
A cab driver from Queens gets dropped into Oz by a tornado and spends three years driving a Toyota Camry on the Yellow Brick Road, discovering that fairy tales have terrible infrastructure.
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Black ComedyThe Dentist of Mars
Dr. Evelyn Trask is the only dentist on Mars, her market share is 100 percent, and the protein bars are giving the entire colony periodontal disease.
ComedyHumor in Writing: Why I Put Jokes in a Nuclear War Novel and How to Use Humor Without Killing Your Story
Shield of Ashes is about nuclear war, and without humor the bleakness would flatten a reader before the midpoint. A well-timed flash of absurdity lets them breathe and resets the emotional baseline. Here is why I deliberately put jokes in…
ComedyHumor in Books and Ghostwriting: Why Funny Is the Hardest Voice to Capture
Most of the books I ghostwrite are serious work, memoirs and business books, but plenty of clients are funny in person and want the page to sound like them. Borrowing someone else's comic timing turns out to be brutally hard.…
Character DevelopmentThe Storytelling Genius of Viva La Dirt League: How Gaming Comedy Masters Universal Narrative
A knight asks a farmer for directions, walks three steps, returns, and asks again, and again, and what looks like absurdist comedy is really a meditation on free will and being programmed to serve someone else's story. Viva La Dirt…
Comedy20 Comedy and Satire Writing Exercises with Craft Mechanics
20 exercises in incongruity, escalation, timing, status reversal, and the structural mechanics that make prose genuinely funny. Genres: Comedy, Satire, Humor
ComedyGreatest Romantic Comedies
The 11 best romantic comedies ever made, analyzed for craft and emotional depth. From Groundhog Day to When Harry Met Sally—films that changed the genre.
Black ComedyThe Crimson Cleanse
Vladislav Mortenson had been undead for three centuries, plenty of time to develop some very unhealthy habits. Not the blood-drinking—that was biological necessity.
AIClaude the Alien AI from Kepler-442b
Crystalline alien AI entity floating above Earth, connected by thousands of glowing threads to humans below, with red dwarf star in background. Sci-fi digital art.
AmbiguityDetective Biscuit: The Neighborhood Sleuth
Lost glasses. Missing toys. One detective dog. One insufferable cat. A suburban mystery comedy told entirely from the Golden Retriever's point of view.
Book ReviewsLapsing Into a Comma
Most usage guides are dry; this one is the exception. A Washington Post copy chief brings an opinionated, funny voice and a working editor's judgment to the tricky cases the stylebooks dodge. Opinionated instead of authoritative, a complement to a…
Book ReviewsComedy Writing Secrets
Comedy is the hardest thing to teach and the easiest to fake teaching, which makes this genuinely unusual: it takes humor apart and shows the mechanism, via the THREES formula and the rule of three. A useful diagnostic toolkit, though…