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Mining Your Life for Laughter with Bob Balmer

May 24, 2021 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Examine your life, using the good, the bad, the embarrassing and the odd as the genesis for humor. Or as James Thurber once said: Humor is chaos remembered in tranquility.

Participants will learn techniques to enliven their prose with humor. Snippets from short stories and essays from both humorists and fiction and nonfiction writers will be used as examples–i.e suggested pre-readings.

Seven conveyors of humor will be taught, explored and practiced. There will also be discussions about the structure and placement of humor.

For more information go to discoveringlaughter.weebly.com. By May 1, there will be a tab dedicated to this workshop with any pre-readings included.

Click the registration link below, enter your name and email address, and you will receive the meeting link immediately. You will also be able to add the meeting to your calendar.

Register in advance for the May 24 Corvallis/Coast Chapter meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtduuqrTIjHNKpgQmoNtGPQCvJGzq-3hYl

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Willamette Writers chapter meetings are free for members to attend, and we ask for a $5 donation from guests: https://willamettewriters.org/donations/.

For information on how to become a Willamette Writers member, click here: https://willamettewriters.org/register/individual/

About the Speaker:
Bob Balmer’s first humorous essay was published in the Oregonian in 1992. His work has appeared in The Smithsonian, The Oregonian, The Seattle Times, The Seattle Weekly, Golf Illustrated, ZYZZYVA, Oregon Coast Magazine, Golf Weekly, The Eugene Weekly and Willamette Week. It has aired on the radio shows The Savvy Traveler and MarketPlace as well as on Oregon Public Radio and Television. He has an MFA in creative writing from Portland State University, and he attended the Iowa Summer Writing Workshop and the Tin House Summer Writing Workshop at Reed College. He recently returned from taking Improv and sketch writing classes at Second City Comedy in Chicago. He has led humor writing workshops at the BARN (Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network) Write in the Harbor, Portland Storytellers Guild, The Oregon Writers Colony, Sitka Center for the Arts and Ecology, The Write on the Sound Writers Conference, The Hoffman Center for the Arts, Mary’s Woods Retirement Center, The Oregon Council Teachers of English student writing Festival, and is slated to lead a workshop for Fishtrap.
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Date:
May 24, 2021
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Venue

Online
Portland, OR United States

Organizer

Willamette Writers on the River in Corvallis
Website:
www.willamettewriters.org/wwotr

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