That's Not Funny
Tuesday, June 29
Description: Join local author Rebecca Rine-Stone for an evening of greasing your literary funny bone!
Whatever your genre, humor can be a great element to elicit more emotion or just make your reader laugh. Whether it’s funny-ha-ha humor (a la David Sedaris) or the more subtle, sarcastic wry-half-smile-smirk humor that lurks in the background (a la Raymond Chandler), or even the are-you-allowed-to-say-that writing (think: Anne Lamott), humor can be an important tool in your arsenal of writing craft.
We’ll work on a few things to teach you how not to go overboard with the funnies as well as arm you with tools to dig for the humor that’s already on the page, just waiting to be discovered.
Please join us because, seriously, That’s Not Funny!
Who Should Attend: Writers of all levels are welcome!
About the Instructor: Rebecca Rine-Stone can’t get enough of Story Studio. She used to work the front desk a few moons ago and now she’s back! After getting her MFA in creative writing from Roosevelt University, she’s now an English instructor at Harper College. Disgruntled with the waiting process in the publishing world, she decided to dig in and self-publish her first book of short, nonfiction stories, Sunbathing in a Body Cast. She has been an on-air contributor to Chicago Public Radio’s 848 program and does stand-up comedy around Chicago.