David Sedaris videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5apZmwR9UI&list=PLA86A504AA10A73C9
How to write like David Sedaris:
http://remainingawriter.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-write-like-david.html
http://ydrstorytelling.blogspot.com/2012/04/david-sedaris-on-writing-write-everyday.html
http://thecopybot.com/2011/08/sedaris-first-sentence/
http://www.missourireview.com/archives/bbarticle/a-conversation-with-david-sedaris/
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1812072,00.html
HOMEWORK:
Please read Sedaris to pg. 59
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http://thewritepractice.com/four-commandments-to-writing-funny/
She relaxed like she was stoned—like literally stoned. We're taking this to the Middle East here. No, we're taking it as far as the Aztecs—they literally threw a boulder on the person. She is that person.
ReplyDeleteHe was almost as ugly as a Sara, but she was ten times uglier.
ReplyDeleteHe smelled almost as bad as a Kyra, but she still still smelled ten times as bad.
ReplyDeleteShe was as sick as permature baby.
ReplyDeleteHe was taller than Twin Towers before 9/11.
She relaxed like she had just taken her medical marijuana.
“I am as sick as a dog,” my friend told me over the phone. It was half past six in the morning on a school day and I was in my bathroom getting ready.
ReplyDelete“Are you coming to school?”
“Oh, no. I have to take a sick day again.” It was Thursday and she had missed all week.
“What do you even have?” I asked as I powdered my face.
“My nose is stuffed beyond belief and my cheeks feel puffy.”
“You have missed four days because of a fucking cold?” Is what I wanted to say. I wanted to say you’ve got be kidding me and I will not let you copy anything out of the 50 pounds of work you’ve missed. But I didn’t say any of that.
“Oh, well, feel better.”
My mother told me not to lie, but I think she’d be okay with this one.
He was taller than a ten-story building with his oblong shape that would slightly wobble in the wind and glass sides that people would stop and stare at themselves in—matter of fact, he actually was ten-story building and I have no idea why I'm giving him personal pronouns.
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