And Now We Write

  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 45: Writing Exercise – Self-Deprecating Imagery

    Gene Perret is a master of classic humor, and in Comedy Writing Step by Step he coaches the reader from a blank sheet of paper all the way to developing a standup routine. We’re going to adapt a few exercises from the book, and today’s exercise is one of them. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise:…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 42: Writing Exercise – Noun vs Noun

    Gene Perret is a master of classic humor, and in Comedy Writing Step by Step he coaches the reader from a blank sheet of paper all the way to developing a standup routine. We’re going to adapt a few exercises from the book, and today’s exercise is one of them. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise:…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 39: Writing Exercise – Topical Jokes

    Gene Perret is a master of classic humor, and in Comedy Writing Step by Step he coaches the reader from a blank sheet of paper all the way to developing a standup routine. We’re going to adapt a few exercises from the book, and today’s exercise is one of them. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise:…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 36: Writing Exercise – Adjective Stand-Ins

    Gene Perret is a master of classic humor, and in Comedy Writing Step by Step he coaches the reader from a blank sheet of paper all the way to developing a standup routine. We’re going to adapt a few exercises from the book, and today’s exercise is one of them. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise:…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 33: Writing Exercise – Tom Swifties

    Writing can be fun — and funny. Gene Perret is a master of classic humor, and in Comedy Writing Step by Step he coaches the reader from a blank sheet of paper all the way to developing a standup routine. We’re going to adapt a few exercises from the book, and today’s exercise is one…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 28: Writing Exercise – Letters from Inside the Story

    This month, we’ve tried a handful of prompts from The 3am Epiphany by Brian Kitely, a book of over 200 writing exercises. This is the last one we’ll be doing together this month. If you’ve been having a good time with these, or if they’ve been hard but constructive, I encourage you to grab a…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 17: Writing Exercise – Phone Tag

    This month, we’re featuring a handful of prompts from The 3am Epiphany by Brian Kitely, a book of over 200 writing exercises. If you like these and you can swing it, I encourage you to get a copy. Today’s ten-minute writing exercise is a simplified version of #64, Phone Tag: Write a phone conversation overheard…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 13: Writing Exercise – Funhouse Mirror

    This month, we’re featuring a handful of prompts from The 3am Epiphany by Brian Kitely, a book of over 200 writing exercises. If you like these and you can swing it, I encourage you to get a copy. Today’s ten-minute writing exercise is a simplified version of #90, Funhouse Mirror: Write a deliberately distorted tall…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 9: Writing Exercise – Jeremiad

    This month, we’re featuring a handful of prompts from The 3am Epiphany by Brian Kitely, a book of over 200 writing exercises. If you like these and you can swing it, I encourage you to get a copy. Today’s ten-minute writing exercise is a simplified version of #119, Jeremiad: Describe something fairly ordinary, in a…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 5: Writing Exercise – Exploring First-Person Plural Narration

    Today’s exercise from Brian Kitely’s The 3am Epiphany involves a first-person plural narration.

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