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William H. Coles Humor, in the main, is something that pleases us, a characteristic alone that can help writers improve the quality of their literary fictional stories. That said, good definitions and valid generalizations about humor are hard to come by. What really amuses us? Who finds what funny? How can literary fiction be enhanced? For practicality, humor can be thought of as a spectrum; on one spectrum end is buffoonery, ridicule, slip-on-a-banana-peel sort of humor — primarily visual or auditory — and on the other end is humor based on ideas — often incongruous, new awareness, comparisons, mutually understood and agreed upon disparities. Irony resides in this more intellectual end of the spectrum, arguably the most useful humor concept for writers of literary fiction. Whatever we might identify as humor is always dependent on numerous inciting conditions and receptive states that are constantly changing. A dominant characteristic of humor is surprise...

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/12/18/best-books-writing-creativity/ Brain Pickings facebook twitter email rss The Year’s Best Books on Writing and Creativity by  Maria Popova Timeless wisdom and practical advice on the pleasures and perils of the written word and the creative life. After the year’s best books in  photography ,  psychology and philosophy ,  art and design ,  history and biography ,  science and technology ,  “children’s” (though we all know  what that means ), and  pets and animals , the season’s subjective selection of  best-of reading lists  concludes with the year’s best reads on writing and creativity. 1. WHY WE WRITE The question of why writers write holds especial mesmerism, both as a piece of psychological voyeurism and as a beacon of self-conscious hope that if we got a glimpse of the innermost drivers of greats, maybe, just maybe, we might be able to replicat...