If you’ve ever skimmed through Living Social and chuckled at the ways people spend money online–such as flea control–you might like my new parody: “Living Social Shopping Cart of Your Vindictive Ex-Girlfriend.”
It’s up today at The Disappointed Housewife, an uber cool literary magazine showcasing idiosyncratic and offbeat writing.
And if you’re interested in reading and writing humor, you might also like my recent interview on the Women on Writing website (scroll to Tuesday, December 18, 2018). Here I discuss the inspiration behind my short story “Dear Derinda.”
When you think about humor, consider the words of George Saunders, a fearless yet compassionate humorist. He said: “Humor is what happens when we’re told the truth much quicker and more directly than we’re used to.”
The lesson here? When writing humor, you can definitely exaggerate and use hyperbole, but you can also tell the truth!
Ashley Memory 