Category Archives: Writing

How to be Funny

Posted on January 8, 2020 by mitchteemley

How to Get a RISE Out of Your Audience In Four Key Elements of Humor, we learned that a funny story begins with a crisis. Now we’ll talk about how to build on that crisis so your story will RISE … Continue reading →

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How to be Funny

Posted on January 7, 2020 by mitchteemley

Four Key Elements of Humor* In Why Funny Matters we looked at the what of funny. Now let’s look at the how. First and foremost, comedy feeds on conflict, or at least the potential for conflict. It can be an … Continue reading →

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How to be Funny

Posted on January 6, 2020 by mitchteemley

Why Funny Matters Whether you’re a writer, teacher, politician or mortician, this three-part series will help you be wittier–or I’ll refund every penny you’ve paid! My first career was about funny. I spent 13+ years in sketch comedy (Isaac Air … Continue reading →

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Real Life Fairytale Places

Posted on January 3, 2020 by mitchteemley

At the beginning of every year I plan, or rather plan to plan. But unofficially I dream of escape, and having cut my literary teeth on fairytales and fantasies, it’s fairytale settings like these I long to visit, or even … Continue reading →

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3 Ways To Hear God’s Voice

Posted on January 1, 2020 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Andy of The Church Revolution. Andy (I don’t know his last name) is a mature Jesus follower and a seasoned mentor/discipler of others. If your New Year’s Resolutions for 2020 include getting serious about … Continue reading →

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A Filmmaker’s Journal

Posted on December 17, 2019 by mitchteemley

Monster Runs Amuck! Notzilla has to be the longest gestating dinosaur egg in history! The year after I graduated from high school, my buddy Jeff and I (co-members of the band The Daily Planet) wrote a short draft for a … Continue reading →

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“If Ya Wanna Send a Message…”

Posted on December 16, 2019 by mitchteemley

Picking a Blog Name, Part Five (To read Part One, click here) The old movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn is reputed to have snarled at a screenwriter, “If ya wanna send a message, use Western Union!” And yet so many of … Continue reading →

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A Godlike Little Loaf of Bread

Posted on December 12, 2019 by mitchteemley

Picking a Blog Name, Part Three (To read Part One, click here) So, I finally decided to use my own name as my blog site name. Not a lotta sizzle in that, but at least it was safe, and after … Continue reading →

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Conversations with my brain…at 3 AM

Posted on December 11, 2019 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week might just be the next Erma Bombeck–if she can find the time! Tie My Tubes Already‘s creator, Tia, is a bookaholic mother of two who “secretly dreams of one day self-publishing a small collection of … Continue reading →

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Mitchellaneous: The Perfect Blog Name?

Posted on December 10, 2019 by mitchteemley

Picking a Blog Name, Part Two (To read Part One, click here) After officially abandoning the title Don’t Read This, You’ll Only Encourage Him!       I did what any creative guy would do: polled my Facebook friends for … Continue reading →

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