I am currently in the process of migrating the content of The Blue Rose Bouquet online magazine from BlueRoses.com to its new home on BlueRoseBouquet.com. Now that the archives for the Writing Woes comic strip have been moved, I’m starting with the oldest short stories, humor, essays, and articles in The Blue Rose Bouquet archives and working my way forward.
During this transition, the Home page for The Blue Rose Bouquet will remain on BlueRoses.com. Any page that has been migrated to BlueRoseBouquet.com automatically (and conveniently) will update to its new location; however, you will need to use the back button to navigate to the links for some of the existing pages.
In the meantime, I continue to dream of that Someday™ when I’ll have a staff to help me with all of my housekeeping chores.
Everybody likes to laugh. It’s therapeutic. It’s nonfattening. It’s fun! Even more satisfying than laughing yourself is the ability to make others do so. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
Like so many things in life, humor is a skill. Perfecting a skill takes work — and, in this case, study. Before you put your personal humor-writing abilities into practice, it helps to learn and understand the theories and concepts on what makes something funny.
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A professional writer since 1984, Pamela Rice Hahn is the author of 18 published books.