Indie Authors: Adding Humor to Your Writing
If you are willing to switch from writing literary masterpieces to low brow commercial swill, then this is the article for you.
Humor adds entertainment to your story and helps hold the reader. They are being rewarded with your clever tidbits for hanging around until the next action sequence.
There is humor in everything. You just have to find it and be brave enough to bring it out. I know, you are already putting yourself out there a lot already. But once you start having characters who think in perverted ways or just don't get it, you won't be able to stop.
The easiest way is to systematically accentuate the differences in perception of your characters. You do this by showing the different perceptions in their dialog. Give characters different ways of speaking and looking at things, then put in a twist with a smart-mouthed comment, sarcasm, or something that shows their ignorance that makes it funny.
There are other ways of making a joke out of things. It is funny when a character throws out a comment that seems totally unrelated to the discussion. In the Medieval setting of Countess Irene Von Stroganoff, On occasion, I use anachronistic jokes. For example, instead of fancy lad saying they should "gain retribution" or something, against Lord Cornfoot, he suggests "unfriending" him.
If you watch your favorite sitcoms, you can break down how they arrive at their humor. You would be surprised at what you can come up with.
You can see how I use humor throughout some of my (Den Warren) books, including Metahuman Wars and Scorc Hunters: Zero Containment. But in Countess Irene Von Stroganoff, the story centers around the humor, and includes a lot of what I call stupid humor. Stupid humor is different from corn, which is jokes that barely pass as a joke, and you wonder if the person telling it even thinks it is funny.
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Humor adds entertainment to your story and helps hold the reader. They are being rewarded with your clever tidbits for hanging around until the next action sequence.
There is humor in everything. You just have to find it and be brave enough to bring it out. I know, you are already putting yourself out there a lot already. But once you start having characters who think in perverted ways or just don't get it, you won't be able to stop.
The easiest way is to systematically accentuate the differences in perception of your characters. You do this by showing the different perceptions in their dialog. Give characters different ways of speaking and looking at things, then put in a twist with a smart-mouthed comment, sarcasm, or something that shows their ignorance that makes it funny.
There are other ways of making a joke out of things. It is funny when a character throws out a comment that seems totally unrelated to the discussion. In the Medieval setting of Countess Irene Von Stroganoff, On occasion, I use anachronistic jokes. For example, instead of fancy lad saying they should "gain retribution" or something, against Lord Cornfoot, he suggests "unfriending" him.
If you watch your favorite sitcoms, you can break down how they arrive at their humor. You would be surprised at what you can come up with.
You can see how I use humor throughout some of my (Den Warren) books, including Metahuman Wars and Scorc Hunters: Zero Containment. But in Countess Irene Von Stroganoff, the story centers around the humor, and includes a lot of what I call stupid humor. Stupid humor is different from corn, which is jokes that barely pass as a joke, and you wonder if the person telling it even thinks it is funny.
Please follow my blog and check out my books. Thank you.
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