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Comedy: March 29, 2006 Issue [#956]

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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

Life throws us curve balls, running us through a gambit of emotions. The best emotion of all is happines, and nothing envokes happiness more than laughter. There is a science to making others laugh, and it is through that science that comedy has evolved.

This topic of this week's Comedy Newsletter is motivation.


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Letter from the editor

Whew! What a whirlwind week it's been for me! My husband and I have decided to buy a new house. And not just any house, but the house that his grandmother owned before she passed away in 2002.

It's exciting to be in the process of purchasing a new house. I see it as a chance to start fresh, more than just rearranging the furniture or changing the paint on the walls.

But then reality hit not long after we made the decision to try to purchase the new house. We have to sell the house that we're currently residing in! That's when my overly-critical eye came out and all of a sudden I hated everything about our house.

Needless to say, this started a frenzy of cleaning in ways that this house has probably never experienced in our almost six years of living here. I found dust that had been making residence on top of furniture for as long as it had sit in this house. Baseboards that had been hiding behind furniture were uncovered and cleaned.

A hallway that has been "in progress" for the past two years is going to be finished - finally. All it took was for me to put the house up for sale. I wish I could have motivated my husband like this before, getting him in a frenzy to fix up his house, rather than relaxing and giving drywall mud a month to cure before he sanded it. *Laugh*

Maybe this kind of motivation can apply to writing, somehow. I don't mean moving houses to revive the muse. Athletes do it all of the time. They enter themselves into competition in order to find the motivation to train harder.

Writer's don't have much competition to enter, though. But there are contests around this site that you enter before you know what you're getting into that do cause the muse to work overtime. I recently entered such a competition ("Invalid Item" ), and ended up making it all of the way to be the next Writing.Com Idol!

I didn't tell you that to toot my own horn. (Well, maybe a little.) It's a good example of entering something for fun, and pushing your limits to try to make it into future rounds. So go out and find a contest. (There's tons listed in the Contest & Activities Newsletter every week!) You never know what it will inspire your muse to write!

Now, if you'll pardon me, I have super-duper-mega-deep cleaning to accomplish. If the seller of the new house accepts our offer, our house will be on the market in the next week. That means that we will have people wandering through our house, and I don't want them to find any of my kitchen cupboards in disorder! *Shock*


Editor's Picks

Da Hanzel und Gretal  [13+]
Winner of Belle's Fairytale Twist Contest
by W.D.Wilcox


 Brazilian Cultural Experience  [E]
A humorous description of learning about Brazilian culture in the USA.
by C.J. Brown


 September Came Too Soon  [E]
The nightmare of finding a college for your child
by funnyguy


Poetic Insanity  [13+]
Complete the previous line and enter part of a new line of poetry...
by deemac


One Night in Margaritaville  [18+]
Small town bad poetry event on Friday nights.
by Katya the Poet


 The Hardest Blow  [18+]
About a guy with a 'demanding' job. Written on my lunch hour.
by Chester Chumley

 
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Ask & Answer

Your last NL got me thinking. Your son and my friend both have birthdays on February 28th. What about those folks who are born in leap years on February 29th? Do they celebrate it on the 28th? On the 1st of March? Once every four years? How old are they really, and won't they actually be ready for retirement by the time they are really sixteen years old and able to drive a car? *Bigsmile*
                   - Brians Next Novel Almost Done!

*Laugh* Well, Brian, I knew a girl in college whose birthday was February 29th. When she turned twenty, we teased her and said she was finally ready for Kindergarten. On her twenty-first birthday, the bartender joined us in a joke that involved refusing to serve her alcohol for another 50 years, give or take a year or four. LOL.

Thank you for all of the compliments from last month's newsletter! It really encourages us editors when we know our audience appreciates our hard work! *Smile*

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