Guess what? You can’t embed a powerpoint into a substack! But I liked the idea of a newsletter in slides, so this is a sort of hybrid version. (The links in the slides don’t work, I’ve put them down the bottom)
Writing advice: Humour, Jokes and How to be Funny
(part of a course I’m thinking about creating)
Types of Joke 1: Hyperbole
Types of Joke 2: Irony
Types of Joke 3: Character
Very Interesting Things
Also!
•Writers and Lovers by Lily King - INCREDIBLE, my fave book of the summer
•Spare by Prince Harry – Surely the most interesting thing is the fact that at boarding school, (young, hot) matrons washed the boys hair for them
•I met Maya Linnell in IRL and she is RWR McDonald-level of loveliness. Her newsletter is EXCELLENT (so are her books, obviously)
•Got this matchy-matchy shirt and shorts, can you please invite me somewhere
•Kind of obsessed with these but not sure if people wear shoes anymore, so. (maybe these sneakers instead?)
•I’m going to Kylie Ladd’s book launch in Feb and Ashley Kalagian-Blunt’s launch in March You should too!
•If you missed The First Time pod’s summer series, the highlights has to be this ep with social media/marketing GURU Shay Gardner. Oh and this one with Helen Garner. Annnd this one with Natasha Lester , which a lot of people said they listened to Natasha twice, taking notes the second time ITS THAT GOOD
Links that didn’t link
Jerry Seinfeld’s donut hole stand up
Jerry Seinfelt podcast interview in which he dissects the donut hole joke (starts at 1:10)
‘Recomendo’ newsletter
Kevin Kelly’s advice is in this book