Interview with the April (Fool's) Challenge Winner KyleRKopp
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The past, the present and the future walked into a bar.
Things got tense...
What did Richard III say when there was a half-price Christmas sale at the local camping supplies store?
"Now is the winter of our discount tent"
Where does Dorian Gray shop for clothes?
Forever 21
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We're sure you're already on the floor guffawing at the hilarity of our one liners - but a sentence, sadly, does not a writer make (unless you're Hemingway) - so in honour of April Fool's we ran a comedy writing challenge for our WEbook members...
We were in fits of laughter here at WEbook HQ reading through all of your brilliant entries, but as ever there could only be one winner! We chose KyleRKopp's hilarious entry, Work From Home, They Said, because it not only had us cringing and giggling all at once, but the painfully realistic humour used by Kyle seemed natural and effortless in its deployment - well done to Kyle!
In the wake of his win, we had a chat with Kyle to find out a bit more about his entry...
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WEBook: Congratulations on winning the challenge! Your story was very funny, it is autobiographical at all?

WB: You write humour very comfortably, is it a genre that comes to you easily?
KK: It is, though I tend to shy away from it when I write. I’m much more comfortable with humor in a face to face, performance type setting where I can gauge the audience and make sure they’re getting the joke. I’m always concerned that a reader will miss the inflection of certain words or miss the intended tone of the piece entirely, especially with something like sarcasm. I get real downtrodden when an attempt at humor fails to connect because humor really comes from your soul; it’s much less crushing for me if a dramatic piece fails to resonate. I feel with heavy pieces I craft them and build them and angle them and if someone doesn’t like them, that’s fine, it’s a structure, something I made. With humor it pours out of me unfiltered; if someone doesn’t like it then they don’t like me. I feel much more exposed when I put it out there.
WB: You discuss working life and the social set-up of the workplace - is the story intended to poke fun at office hierarchy?

WB: What is your favourite type of writing to read?

WB: If you could meet any writer, living or dead, who would it be and why?

WB: Thanks for taking the time to talk with us Kyle! We look forwards to reading more of your challenge submissions over the coming months.
Well done to everyone who entered our April (Fool's) Challenge - don't forget that our June Challenge is now running and we're challenging you to write without the use of sight or sound... could you be our next winner?
The WEbook Team
1 comments
It is rare to see writer with natural humor in writing style. Webook really made good choice.
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