WIP CHALLENGE CHECK IN - DAY 5

[peachpai]

Happy Tuesday! How's writing?

-Wrote something, woo!
-Planning, outlining, note taking, research, etc.
-Editing
-Sent something to my beta
-It's done! I posted!
-Thought about writing
-Taking a day off
-Something else (discuss in comments)


Tuesday Discussion: Do you write humor? What is your process for writing jokes? How do you work them into the scene without disrupting the flow?

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[frogfarm]

Other-stuffing again, spending the day with that special someone. Now it's time to sit down and write and I have no idea which WIP is going to get the love. If the last few days are any indication, I'll get a little done on three or four different pieces.

I was going to say I don't deliberately write humor that often, and it still doesn't feel like it, but it does make more than an occasional appearance in my work and even completely rules some stories. Hadn't thought about it 'til now, so all I can come up with is that in an otherwise serious scene, I wouldn't put in a joke unless it didn't disrupt the flow. Villains like Angelus are particularly useful and fun in this regard, because they live to joke even as they're ripping our your spleen.

[brithistorian]

I finished a chapter and posted it! I'm especially proud of this because I've set up story hooks for at least the next two chapters (one of which has the potential to turn into a full-fledged subplot!).

[lady_katana4544]

Mostly other stuffing with very little writing happening today.

[samuraiter]

I already knew that today was not going to be a writing day because today is the release day for Etrian Odyssey Nexus (3DS), and that dungeon is going to keep me from keyboard for most of the evening. :-) But, hey, it's hard to write fanfic if you don't experience the raw material that makes it happen, right?

As much as I try to be a serious 'ficcer, there are times when I've got to plant my tongue firmly in cheek and write silly stuff instead. I think the trick to that is to have the entire story be funny, and to then have that be a short so that it does not wear out its welcome too quickly. Writing humor into a longer story that might be otherwise be serious is ... quite a bit harder. I don't have any advice on that. Speaking from past experience: Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it falls as flat as a lead balloon.

[enemytosleep]

So this week is really kicking my ass! I got another few hundred words out, so I'll take it.

I love comedy and write it far too often.