Hello, Stand-Up Performers! Could you please send me a sentence or two about yourself that Wendy Liebman can use when she introduces you? It was a simple enough email, but left me staring at a blank screen for far too long. It was for me, and I don’t do stand up; I barely do sit down. I’m headed to the Erma Bombeck Writing Workshop, a biannual (every two years, not
Phil Donahue & Erma Bombeck Saved My Writing Soul
I went to Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop desperately seeking my funny. When you’re surrounded by 300+ women writers and a handful of men all of whom are genetically talented, it has the distinct possibility to leave you crying in the bathroom. Forever alone. A girl and her cellphone. And a quite possibly a cocktail. The Erma groupies were more than a little intimidating: books and columns and syndication and by-lines. Comics and screenplays and blogs and