40 Funny Writing Puns

Here are 40 funny writing jokes and the best writing puns to crack you up. These jokes about writing are great jokes for kids and adults.

Here is our top list of writing dad jokes. Find your favorite puns about writing, have a laugh, then share and enjoy this writing humor with others.

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• Writing puns
• Writing one liners
• Best writing jokes
• Final thoughts

Writing puns

Here are some of our favorite dad jokes about writing that are also awesome writing jokes for adults and kids to be told!

1. What dinosaur is a writer’s best friend? Thesaurus.
2. What’s a fanfic writer’s weapon of choice? His headcanon.
3. How does a Buzzfeed writer catch fish? Clickbait.
4. Why don’t escaped convicts make good writers? Because they never finish their sentences.
5. What do you call it when someone’s working on an erotic novel and gets writer’s block? Textual frustration.

6. What blood type do writers have? Type O.
7. What does the writer suffer from each spring? A case of allegories.
8. What do u call a zombie that writes music? A decomposer.
9. Why are writers always cold? They’re surrounded by drafts.
10. What do you call a writer who doesn’t follow the rules of sentence structure? A rebel without a clause.

11. What do you call a writer with health insurance? Married.
12. How many Buzzfeed writers does it take to turn on an electric chair? Ten. But number four will shock you.
13. Why did Shakespeare only write in ink? Pencils posed a problem, 2B or not 2B.
14. What do you call a writer who feels like they’ve been born in the wrong body? Transcribe.
15. Why was the failed writer unable to use his pencil to make another book? Because it was pointless.

Writing one liners

Here are some great writing joke one liners that you can quip whenever someone is talking about writing.

16. I write letters on my feet. They are my footnotes.
17. I write my name in cursive all the time. It’s my signature move.
18. I’m writing a book about reverse psychology. Please don’t buy it.
19. I’m finally writing a dad joke about spices. It’s about thyme.
20. I’m starting to write a book about a tornado disaster. It’s just a draft at the moment.

21. I’ve started writing German poetry. Could be verse.
22. Being a writer keeps me in great physical shape. I’m always running out of ideas.
23. Farmers would make great writers. They really know how to work a plot.
24. I’ve decided to kill off a few characters in the book I’m writing. It will definitely spice up my autobiography a little.
25. I was writing a text, and Autocorrect changed “killed” to “kilt”. Well plaid, phone. Well plaid.

26. I finally passed my writing skills test. Good writtens.
27. I heard Optimus Prime is writing a book. It’s an autobotography.
28. I once asked this literary agent what writing paid the best, and he said, ‘ransom notes’.
29. I should write a book about procrastination. But I’m a terrible writer, so I probably won’t.
30. I have a friend who writes songs about sewing machines. He’s a Singer songwriter, or sew it seams.

Best writing jokes

These next funny writing puns are some of our best jokes and puns about writing!

31. What do you call a hierarchy of writers? An author-ity.
32. I’m writing a musical about puns. It’s a play on words.
33. What state has the most writers? Pencil-vania.
34. What’s it like to be an aspiring writer? It’s difficult to put into words.
35. What did the writer say when he glued himself to his book? That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

36. What do you call a well-slept, well-fed writer? Content writer.
37. What brand of camera does a fanfiction writer own? A Canon.
38. What kind of bike do you use to write letters? A stationary bike.
39. Why are writers really good at coding? Because they are really into Pro grammar.
40. Have you seen the new pen that writes underwater, upside down and in outer space? It writes lots of other words too.

Final thoughts

After reading through all these hilarious jokes about writing, we hope you had a good laugh.

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