Karina Sanchez

It’s like cloudy with a chance of meatballs only without the clouds and meatballs and a lot more sinister.

No, to do that to the poor guy. But yes, of course I was talking about my sporadic sense of humor. It is so much more unusual to say it with that intention. It helps with my fake character development.

What?! That you make me laugh???

AAAAAACK! Help! Attack of the killer elbow noodles!

Macaroni that has a soft spot for evil scientists.

*Sobs of ocean depths* Kate! How could you suggest such a thing!

Building off of your idea, @Hope… an evil baron with an allergy to broccoli.
A brilliant leader obsessed with spaghetti.
An evil scientist who has a soft spot for frogs and macaroni.
A weak, timid protagonist who has an uncontrollable affinity for any and every reptile in existence.
Something along those lines? You’re right— that would be…[Read more]

You make me laugh so hard, Daeus. 😀

Well Hope, my idea is similar to Daeus’s, but I’ll post it anyway. What if the dad was taken (for whatever reason— trying to save Anna maybe as Daeus suggested) and they experimented with their (or Daeus’s) new Enigma thing on the dad.
Maybe there were problems they needed to clear up about their new and…[Read more]

Here’s what I’m thinking. So there’s gonna be this part where they have to hold off the attacking forces until the resistance can completely formulate. So this already sounds like a difficult task. Let’s make it epic. Let’s say that at the same time, the gov. comes out with a new and top secret version of Enigma with far more powerful and…[Read more]

I might be able to give you a couple ideas, but I need to ask you first, what is the theme of your story? Also, (without giving too much away) what is the climax of your story?

I don’t think every rule of serious, emotional writing is completely irrelevant, but most of them are. Actually, to take my comedic piece for an example, it is totally possible to write a comedy that is serious and emotional and still have the focus be on comedy. Comedy generally results when people are serious or emotional about the wrong things…[Read more]

Caricature’s the word then, hm? Caricature and exaggeration. 😉

So in the case of comedy (correct me if I’m wrong) every rule of serious, emotional writing is completely irrelevant.

Let me give an example.

Let’s say we have a male protagonist who’s afraid of the dark. If he gets shut in a dark cellar in a serious, realistic novel, he’ll be…[Read more]

Kate,

You pretty much just said everything I would have said if I actually said everything I wanted to say. Caricatures. That is exactly what I was going to say. Caricatures are the essence of comedy.

There is absolutely no limit to how much you can exaggerate people and situations. One of my favorite comedies is the movie “The Hudsucker…[Read more]

Thanks guys! I haven’t glanced over those links yet, Amanda, but I will when I find time. I’m a little short of that… 😛

Those are some great tips, Daeus! I’d not thought of it like that before… situation mattering as much as character… hm…

What about exaggerating characters? How far can you (should you) go? Are there rules, or does…[Read more]

Great topic. I’m surprised we haven’t got to it yet.

Do you write one novel a month or something?

I must confess, I’ve only written one comedic piece in my life, but that one piece taught me a lot about writing comedy. Writing comedy is much different from being funny personally. What I discovered is that writing comedy is mostly about the…[Read more]

Oh my goodness @Rolena! So tragic! 😉

All of those sound pretty creative to me, @Ivy-Rose. 🙂

Bedfordshire England

@rolena-hatfield Haha, I’m really not sure. Of course, I have a general idea of what it sounds like. The thing is that just about any pronunciation of those letters would fit his character just about perfectly. My mom studied french, so I asked her. She wasn’t able to give me a definite answer though. So I have a pretty good idea, but I don’t…[Read more]