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Robb Lightfoot, Author-Humorist

Robb lives and works in Northern California. His humor has appeared in regional and national publications, including ANewsCafe.com and The Funny Times. He’s appeared on stage in Reno, and as part of the #virtualerma 2020 stand-up night. Robb’s screenplay, “One Little Indian” […]

Newsletters: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

I get a big kick out of writing newsletters. I think they’re a fun and powerful way to connect with your readers and supporters. But, that said, I have a love-hate relationship with the services I’ve used to connect them to my […]

Tip #1 – Making Stone Soup

There will be days when you just don’t feel a bit funny. There will be long hours when you just don’t feel like writing anything at all. Tough. That’s the one thing I claim to have learned as a daily news reporter. […]

But It Worked Yesterday!

Unpleasant truth: Your phone, computer, or your car was OK when you last looked, but something went sideways in dead of night. Now they’re just paperweights, conversation pieces, or a driveway ornaments. And the warranties? Damn, they expired yesterday. What went wrong? […]

#HumorHandbook Project on Medium and Facebook

You can be a part of the conversation and the development of the humor handbook. It\’s a long-considered project of setting down my thoughts on comedy and a key take-aways from more than 40 years of studying and practicing humor-writing and comedy. […]

Be Brief – Robb’s Rule #4

William Shakespeare, Hamlet Write tight. It\’s tempting to stop here, as a hyperbolic statement of the value of brevity. The best humor sneaks up on you. Taking you on a path and then making a sudden turn, pushing you over the edge […]

Positive Pretending – Robb’s Rule #3

Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night We know that fiction writers create their worlds by pretending to be something they’re not. But the reality is, at some point, all writers have to pretend. “Once upon a time” starts all of our stories, because writers […]