How to Write Stand-Up Comedy: A Workbook for Perfect Performances

6 hrs. 59 min.

Miscellaneous

Language Russian

Author Dzhin Perre

Narrator Alexey Voskoboynikov

Description

“Every morning I enter my home office and work at the thing I love—work that feeds me. Around me are wonderful companions, delivering unbelievable lines: characters who exist only for me until I capture their voices on the page and make them real for others. Again and again I go to places whose coordinates can’t be worked out by any formula and can’t be seen through any telescope.

Every day of mine is happiness.

You have in your hands an invitation—come in.” – Joseph Michael Straczynski

This book grew out of Straczynski’s forty years of experience in screenwriting and writing—in film, television, prose, and comics. Plainspoken, precise, and truly friendly, it will be useful to an author at any stage: from first attempts to professional work. Straczynski opens up the back rooms of the craft and shares lessons and techniques on the topics:

• What a beginner writer needs to understand to grow faster, find a path to publication and selling their text, and not waste time.

• How to build a working discipline and write regularly without waiting for inspiration to arrive.

• What story-planning methods help keep you on course while preserving liveliness and improvisation.

• What tools make it possible to create worlds that are memorable and feel real.