Humor / How-to
206 Pages
ISBN: 0-910055-62-9
Paper: $15.95 $8.00
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Writing humor is a delicate, sometimes perilous, craft. In The Deer on a Bicycle, master craftsman Patrick McManus lets us in on the laughs. McManus supplies answers to the sort of practical questions that aspiring humorists so often ask him ("Do you have any rules for writing humor?" "Can one learn to see funny?" "Does a first-book author need an agent?" "How do I know where to send my manuscript?" "Is pain funny?") and then takes ten of his funniest, most treasured stories, including "The Big Trip," "The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw," and "Muldoon in Love," and provides a commentary on each one. With characteristic generosity, he shares the sources of his ideas for these stories and explains the various writing techniques used in each. The result is an insightful and entertaining guide that has become required reading for anyone who writes humor or has ever harbored a secret desire to do so.
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Born in Sandpoint, Idaho, Patrick Francis McManus attended Washington State College (now University), where he immediately caught the attention of his Freshman Composition teacher by earning Fs on his first half-dozen essays. This led ultimately to a career as a writer and journalist–he has been an editor at both Outdoor Life and Field & Stream–and as a professor of English and journalism at Eastern Washington University (née College). His most recent books are a best-selling series of mysteries featuring the incomparable Sheriff Bo Tully: The Double-Jack Murders (2009), Avalanche (2007), and The Blight Way (2006).
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