Great Questions About Humor Writing, Part II

The mindsets of humor writers

Alex Baia
The Writing Cooperative
8 min readNov 20, 2023

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Humor writing involves two battles: The first battle is getting the right words on the page and shaping them into something funny.

The second battle is dealing with the psychological blocks that stop you from winning the first battle.

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